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Lay Persons and Community Values in Reviewing Animal Experimentation Jeff Leslie [email protected]
University of Chicago Legal Forum Volume 2006 | Issue 1 Article 5 Lay Persons and Community Values in Reviewing Animal Experimentation Jeff Leslie [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf Recommended Citation Leslie, Jeff () "Lay Persons and Community Values in Reviewing Animal Experimentation," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 2006: Iss. 1, Article 5. Available at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol2006/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Chicago Unbound. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Chicago Legal Forum by an authorized administrator of Chicago Unbound. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Lay Persons and Community Values in Reviewing Animal Experimentation Jeff Lesliet Is it morally acceptable to use animals in scientific experi- ments that will not benefit those animals, but instead solely benefit people? Most people would say yes; but at the same time most would view the use of animals as a regrettable necessity, to be pursued only when the benefits to people outweigh the harm to the animals, and only after everything possible is done to minimize that harm. Identifying benefits and harms may require specialized scientific and technological understanding, to be sure, but evaluating the tradeoff between them requires not technical expertise, but rather the capacity to make difficult moral judg- ments. We do not usually think of moral judgments as the unique terrain of any particular set of professionals or experts. Anyone capable of ethical reasoning has an equal claim to exper- tise, and a pluralistic society can be expected to exhibit a wide range of moral beliefs. -
Vegan Youtubers Performing Ethical Beliefs
religions Article Vegan YouTubers Performing Ethical Beliefs Kim Harding * and Abby Day * Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 6NW, UK * Correspondence: [email protected] (K.H.); [email protected] (A.D.) Abstract: In Great Britain, “religion or belief” is one of nine “protected characteristics” under the Equality Act 2010, which protects citizens from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. This paper begins with a discussion about a 2020 ruling, “Jordi Casamitjana vs. LACS”, which concluded that ethical vegans are entitled to similar legal protections in British workplaces as those who hold philosophical religious beliefs. While not all vegans hold a philosophical belief to the same extent as Casamitjana, the ruling is significant and will be of interest to scholars investigating non-religious ethical beliefs. To explore this, we have analysed a sample of YouTube videos on the theme of “my vegan story”, showing how vloggers circulate narratives about ethical veganism and the process of their conversion to vegan beliefs and practices. The story format can be understood as what Abby Day has described as a performative “belief narrative”, offering a greater opportunity to understand research participants’ beliefs and related identities than, for example, findings from a closed-question survey. We suggest that through performative acts, YouTubers create “ethical beliefs” through the social, mediatised, transformative, performative and relational practice of their digital content. In doing so, we incorporate a digital perspective to enrich academic discussions of non-religious beliefs. Keywords: veganism; ethical belief; philosophical belief; non-religion; YouTube; mediatisation; secularisation; performativity; digital religion Citation: Harding, Kim, and Abby Day. -
Call No. 300 Contract Id. 191035 Bullitt County Fed/State Project Number Fd04 015 0044 021-022 Description Ky-44 Work Type
eProposal Jan-2009 CALL NO. 300 CONTRACT ID. 191035 BULLITT COUNTY FED/STATE PROJECT NUMBER FD04 015 0044 021-022 DESCRIPTION KY-44 WORK TYPE SLIDE REPAIR PRIMARY COMPLETION DATE 12/15/2019 LETTING DATE: August 23,2019 Sealed Bids will be received electronically through the Bid Express bidding service until 10:00 AM EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME August 23,2019. Bids will be publicly announced at 10:00 AM EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME. NO PLANS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROJECT. REQUIRED BID PROPOSAL GUARANTY: Not less than 5% of the total bid. BULLITT COUNTY Contract ID: 191035 FD04 015 0044 021-022 Page 2 of 136 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I SCOPE OF WORK · PROJECT(S), COMPLETION DATE(S), & LIQUIDATED DAMAGES · CONTRACT NOTES · STATE CONTRACT NOTES · ASPHALT MIXTURE · INCIDENTAL SURFACING · COMPACTION OPTION B · SPECIAL NOTE(S) APPLICABLE TO PROJECT · TREE REMOVAL · RIGHT OF WAY NOTES · UTILITY IMPACT & RAIL CERTIFICATION NOTES · GENERAL UTILITY NOTES · SEWER STANDARD UTILITY BID ITEMS · SEWERLINE SPECS · KPDES STORM WATER PERMIT, BMP AND ENOI PART II SPECIFICATIONS AND STANDARD DRAWINGS · SPECIFICATIONS REFERENCE · SUPPLEMENTAL SPECIFICATION PART III EMPLOYMENT, WAGE AND RECORD REQUIREMENTS · LABOR AND WAGE REQUIREMENTS · EXECUTIVE BRANCH CODE OF ETHICS · KENTUCKY EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1978 LOCALITY / STATE · PROJECT WAGE RATES / STATE PART IV INSURANCE PART V BID ITEMS BULLITT COUNTY Contract ID: 191035 FD04 015 0044 021-022 Page 3 of 136 PART I SCOPE OF WORK BULLITT COUNTY Contract ID: 191035 FD04 015 0044 021-022 Page 4 of 136 ADMINISTRATIVE -
Know the HSUS
Do you know the goal of The Humane Society of the United States? "We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States ... We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state. Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US (HSUS), formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals - Full Cry Magazine, October 1, 1990. “We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of selective breeding.” Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of HSUS, former board member of PETA - Animal People News 1993 “I don’t have a hands-on fondness for animals…To this day I don’t feel bonded to any non-human animal. I like them and I pet them and I’m kind to them, but there’s no special bond between me and other animals.” Wayne Pacelle quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 251. “The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.” Wayne Pacelle, quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 265. When asked if he envisioned a future without pets: “If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another dog or cat born.” Wayne Pacelle quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. -
Summer 2005 ACLU News
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CAL I FORNIA 2 0 0 5 BECAUSE FREEDOM CAN’T PROTECT ITSELF SUMMER VOLUME LXIX ISSUE 3 WHAT’SAC INSIDE LUnews PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6-7 PAGE 9 ACLU Wins in Union City: Powerful Youth: Compassionate Choices: KEEPING AMERICA Victory in Deer Valley: No More Student Round-Ups Th e Summit Th at Inspired Dying On One’s Own Terms SAFE & FREE Students Win Right to Rally ACLU PRESSES FOR PATRIOT ACT REFORM: CONCERN GROWS AS HOUSE RENEWS ANTITERRORISM LAW By Kristen Jones and Julia Daniels he ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) campaigned hard this summer to keep Congress from making permanent the most Tintrusive provisions of the USA PATRIOT antiterrorism law. At press time, the PATRIOT Act appeared headed for re- Francisco and San Jose, attended by hundreds of activists. authorization, with the House voting to extend indefi nitely all Just days later, ACLU National Executive Director Anthony but two of the act’s 16 sunset provisions, proposing 10-year D. Romero spoke at a San Francisco press conference. He extensions on roving wiretaps and searches of library, medical, listed the sinister consequences of the government’s expanded and other personal records. counterterrorism powers, from the FBI’s ability to snoop into Meanwhile, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 GIGI PANDIAN would extend to four years, instead of 10 years, the pro- visions for roving wiretap and records searches. Although the bill falls far short of the key reforms needed to protect civil liberties, the ACLU commends the Senate for taking a bipartisan approach to moderating some of the PATRIOT NOVEMBER BALLOT INITIATIVE Act’s most intrusive stipulations. -
Promoting Local Philanthropy and Strengthening the Dear Neighbors and Friends, Nonprofit Organizations in Essex County, MA
Promoting local philanthropy and strengthening the Dear Neighbors and Friends, nonprofit organizations in Essex County, MA. If ever there were a time for a thriving Community Foundation, this is it. Charitable life in America has reached new levels of challenge and importance this year. When government is in difficult straits, when business is recovering, and when society’s Ayer Mill Clock Tower needs are growing, the nonprofit sector steps forward. Can charities become more effi- Turns 100! cient? Can donors give more effectively? Can they work together? Your Community Foundation is at the heart of the matter. This Report has news of ECCF’s October 3rd, 2010 marked the life in 2011: 100th Anniversary of the larg- est mill clock tower in the 2011 Record participation of leaders county-wide at the Institute for Trustees world. ECCF celebrated Significant increases in the breadth of grantmaking by ECCF Fund Holders the tower and its keeper, report A challenging fundraising year for ECCF and many other nonprofits Charlie Waites, with a A game-changing summit of nonprofit leaders in Lawrence reception at the Law- 6,800 Massachusetts nonprofits and 275,000 nationwide decertified by IRS as out rence History Center. ... Making a difference of business or out of compliance ECCF manages the maintenance of for those who make Record attendance at the Youth at Risk Conference in the face of major public the tower through a difference budget cuts an Endowment Wonderful new Trustees and staff helping ECCF expand its services and impact Fund established at the Foundation. Learn A year like 2011 shows just how essential it is for Essex County to have its Community more about the iconic Foundation. -
Jm Coetzee and Animal Rights
J.M. COETZEE AND ANIMAL RIGHTS: ELIZABETH COSTELLO’S CHALLENGE TO PHILOSOPHY Richard Alan Northover SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA PRETORIA, 0002, SOUTH AFRICA Supervisor: Professor David Medalie OCTOBER 2009 © University of Pretoria Abstract The thesis relates Coetzee’s focus on animals to his more familiar themes of the possibility of fiction as a vehicle for serious ethical issues, the interrogation of power and authority, a concern for the voiceless and the marginalised, a keen sense of justice and the question of secular salvation. The concepts developed in substantial analyses of The Lives of Animals and Disgrace are thereafter applied to several other works of Coetzee. The thesis attempts to position J.M. Coetzee within the animal rights debate and to assess his use of his problematic persona, Elizabeth Costello, who controversially uses reason to attack the rationalism of the Western philosophical tradition and who espouses the sympathetic imagination as a means of developing respect for animals. Costello’s challenge to the philosophers is problematised by being traced back to Plato’s original formulation of the opposition between philosophers and poets. It is argued that Costello represents a fallible Socratic figure who critiques not reason per se but an unqualified rationalism. This characterisation of Costello explains her preoccupation with raising the ethical awareness of her audience, as midwife to the birth of ideas, and perceptions of her as a wise fool, a characterisation that is confirmed by the use of Bakhtin’s notion of the Socratic dialogue as one of the precursors of the modern novel. -
Science, Sentience, and Animal Welfare
WellBeing International WBI Studies Repository 1-2013 Science, Sentience, and Animal Welfare Robert C. Jones California State University, Chico, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/ethawel Part of the Animal Studies Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and the Nature and Society Relations Commons Recommended Citation Jones, R. C. (2013). Science, sentience, and animal welfare. Biology and Philosophy, 1-30. This material is brought to you for free and open access by WellBeing International. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of the WBI Studies Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Science, Sentience, and Animal Welfare Robert C. Jones California State University, Chico KEYWORDS animal, welfare, ethics, pain, sentience, cognition, agriculture, speciesism, biomedical research ABSTRACT I sketch briefly some of the more influential theories concerned with the moral status of nonhuman animals, highlighting their biological/physiological aspects. I then survey the most prominent empirical research on the physiological and cognitive capacities of nonhuman animals, focusing primarily on sentience, but looking also at a few other morally relevant capacities such as self-awareness, memory, and mindreading. Lastly, I discuss two examples of current animal welfare policy, namely, animals used in industrialized food production and in scientific research. I argue that even the most progressive current welfare policies lag behind, are ignorant of, or arbitrarily disregard the science on sentience and cognition. Introduction The contemporary connection between research on animal1 cognition and the moral status of animals goes back almost 40 years to the publication of two influential books: Donald Griffin’s The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience (1976) and Peter Singer’s groundbreaking Animal Liberation (1975). -
Shivley Colostate 0053A 13792.Pdf (3.519Mb)
DISSERTATION EXPLORING ANIMAL WELFARE THROUGH AN INVESTIGATION OF VETERINARY EDUCATION AND ON-FARM ASSESSMENTS OF DAIRY CALF WELFARE Submitted by Chelsey B. Shivley Department of Animal Sciences In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado Summer 2016 Doctoral Committee: Advisor: Temple Grandin Franklyn B. Garry Terry E. Engle Bernard E. Rollin Martha L. Kesel Copyright by Chelsey B. Shivley 2016 All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT EXPLORING ANIMAL WELFARE THROUGH AN INVESTIGATION OF VETERINARY EDUCATION AND ON-FARM ASSESSMENTS OF DAIRY CALF WELFARE Animal welfare encompasses many different areas, including science, ethics, economics and law. Veterinarians have an opportunity to serve as leaders in the field of animal welfare due to their interaction with all aspects of animal use. In order to do so, they must be properly trained, and veterinary curricula were evaluated for courses related to animal welfare, ethics, and behavior. Consumers are concerned with how animals are managed, and aspects of welfare of preweaned dairy calves, including colostrum quality, passive transfer status, average daily gain, and bull calf management, were evaluated. The objective of the first study presented in Chapter III was to explore the extent to which veterinary colleges and schools accredited by the AVMA Council on Education (COE) have incorporated specific courses related to animal welfare, behavior, and ethics. The design included a survey and curriculum review. The sample included all 49 AVMA COE–accredited veterinary colleges and schools (institutions). The study consisted of 2 parts. In part 1, a survey regarding animal welfare, behavior, and ethics was e-mailed to the associate dean of academic affairs at all 49 AVMA COE–accredited institutions. -
A Qualitative Study of Vegan-Omnivore Conflict Kelly Guerin University of Colorado Boulder
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by CU Scholar Institutional Repository University of Colorado, Boulder CU Scholar Undergraduate Honors Theses Honors Program Spring 2014 Where's the Beef? (With Vegans): A Qualitative Study of Vegan-Omnivore Conflict Kelly Guerin University of Colorado Boulder Follow this and additional works at: http://scholar.colorado.edu/honr_theses Recommended Citation Guerin, Kelly, "Where's the Beef? (With Vegans): A Qualitative Study of Vegan-Omnivore Conflict" (2014). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 109. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Honors Program at CU Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of CU Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Guerin 1 Where’s the Beef? (With Vegans): A Qualitative Study of Vegan-Omnivore Conflict Kelly Guerin Anthropology Departmental Honors Thesis University of Colorado at Boulder Defended April 4th, 2014 Thesis Advisor Dr. Darna Dufour, Department of Anthropology Defense Committee Dr. Abby Hickcox, Honors Program Dr. Steven Leigh, Department of Anthropology Approved by IRB on November 17th, 2013 Guerin 2 Introduction In 2010, the United Nations Environment Programme issued a groundbreaking environmental impact report focusing on the causes, rather than effects, of environmental degradation and stressed that agriculture be moved into the spotlight as a main contributor to the rapid depletion of resources. It was cited that agriculture accounts for 70% of the earth’s freshwater, 38% of total land use, 19% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Shockingly, half of the crops produced were directed to the raising of livestock (UNEP report, 2010). -
Science and Sense: the Case for Abolishing Sow Stalls
January 2013 Science and Sense THE CASE FOR ABOLISHING SOW STALLS This report was written by Dr Malcolm Caulfield and PATRONS reviewed by Voiceless’s Scientific Expert Advisory Council. • Professor J.M. Coetzee It is endorsed by the World Society for the Protection Nobel Prize for Literature Winner 2003, author of of Animals, Compassion in World Farming and Animals The Lives of Animals and Elizabeth Costello Australia. • Brian Sherman AM Businessman and philanthropist Images courtesy of Animals Australia. • Dr Jane Goodall World-renowned primatologist and animal advocate © January 2013 • The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG ISBN: 978-0-9803740-6-3 (paperback) Former Justice of the High Court of Australia ISBN: 978-0-9803740-7-0 (online) SCIENTIFIC EXPERT ADVISORY COUNCIL Voiceless • Professor Marc Bekoff 2 Paddington Street Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Paddington NSW 2021 Australia University of Colorado, Boulder. Co-founder with Jane T. +612 9357 0723 F. +612 9357 0711 Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of [email protected] Animals. • Dr Malcolm Caulfield Founder and Principal Lawyer of the Animal Welfare Community Legal Centre. Formerly a pharmacologist in ABOUT VOICELESS industry and academia. Voiceless is an independent and non-profit think tank • Professor Clive Phillips dedicated to alleviating the suffering of animals in Foundation Chair of Animal Welfare, Centre for Animal Australia. Established in 2004 by father and daughter team, Welfare and Ethics, University of Queensland. Brian Sherman AM and Ondine Sherman, Voiceless: • Professor Lesley J. Rogers • Creates and fosters networks of leading lawyers, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience and Animal politicians, businesspeople and professionals to Behaviour, University of New England. -
The Beacon, February 18, 2009 Florida International University
Florida International University FIU Digital Commons The aP nther Press (formerly The Beacon) Special Collections and University Archives 2-18-2009 The Beacon, February 18, 2009 Florida International University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Florida International University, "The Beacon, February 18, 2009" (2009). The Panther Press (formerly The Beacon). 269. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/student_newspaper/269 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and University Archives at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aP nther Press (formerly The Beacon) by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University Vol. 21, Issue 69 www.fi usm.com Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Adaptation proves Young coach and tennis entertaining but cluttered team off to good start PAGE 7 PAGE 12 SPOTLIGHT University discusses Golf cart AT THE BAY PAGE 4 tech fee implementation thefts The Daily Show producer Adam Chodikoff set to speak on Thursday. DAVID BARRIOS campus. With the amendment of Section continue LIFE! PAGE 7 Senior Staff Writer Cathy Akens, assistant vice 1009.24 of the Florida Statutes, the Column: Eddith Sevilla gives you tips to president of student affairs, will University Board of Trustees can keep your heart healthy and happy. Students can expect to pay chair the tech fee commitee that choose to establish a technology unchecked OPINION PAGE 6 up to an additional 5 percent on has been established.