Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eating Animals, Coronavirus, Richard Posner
22 Sep 2020
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Ethics week 10 notes using animals for our health: considering animals as consumable products and health test subjects, peter singer"s notion of animal personhood , animals are people as well. Just because it"s labelled organic doesn"t mean it"s free of environmental contaminants: lacks evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious, but it does reduce exposure to pesticide residues and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Inhumane conditions in factory farming? : moral objections to the way meat is produced, animals aren"t treated badly. If the meat is cheap then the animals were not treated properly. Specialists: one who discriminates against another"s rights by virtue of their belonging to another, non-human species, compare with racists, sexists, etc. Ethics week 10 notes using animals for our health. What"s wrong with this theory: richard posner (law professor, u of chicago, offers a synthesis (a compromise b/w 2 opposite povs, known as the thesis and.
