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Martha Nussbaum’s “Justice for Animals” takes ethics to wild extremes

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Martha Nussbaum is a very, very big deal, the kind of philosopher who, when she publishes a book, makes waves well beyond the ivory towers of academia. Her new volume, Justice for Animals, plunges into the animal welfare debate, billing itself as a “revolutionary new theory” in how we humans think about other animals. Which makes it all the more surprising that, at its heart, her theory isn’t very revolutionary at all. Nussbaum, whom the New Yorker once described as “monumentally confident,” contends that pretty much everyone has been thinking about animals wrong — including animal lovers. She rejects the…
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Peter Singer on animal rights, octopus farms and why AI is a speciesist

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PETER SINGER’s book Animal Liberation was a “philosophical bombshell” when it came out in 1975, according to activist Ingrid Newkirk, who said it “made people – myself included – change what we eat, what we wear and how we perceive animals”. Singer, now a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, provided a philosophical argument for overhauling humanity’s treatment of animals, condemning practices such as animal testing and meat eating on the grounds that animals have as much right to live free from pain and suffering as humans. Although it helped inspire the modern animal-rights movement, Singer’s views on animal ethics…
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Grand National 2023 reflections after debate over Aintree marathon resurfaces

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Our man reflects on an extraordinary Grand National day where emotions run hot at Aintree for several reasons. Forget Making Plans for Nigel – Racing must be agile Coming up to 4.30pm on a sunny spring Saturday at Aintree and the area behind the main stand is abuzz. Lads in tight suits and lasses in tighter dresses gab away merrily and, as Simon Holt calls Midnight River home to seal a Dan Skelton double, a small, wrinkly figure clad in custard cords and brown trilby pulled down to his eyebrows strides briskly towards the paddock . And, just like that,…
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