Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.5406/21601267.13.1.07
Christene D'anca
Abstract:Food is intimately associated with the body, and what a person chooses to consume can easily be used to craft one's identity. Food brings people together, in much the same way as culinary preferences can divide. As veganism is gaining traction around the world, this article examines its origins in religious practices, philosophy, literature, and economic trade within the Middle Ages, elucidating how contemporary decisions to abstain from animal consumption mirror medieval ones and further how similar obstacles to this lifestyle exist today.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.5406/21601267.13.1.17
Edward C. Sellner
The result stresses a more creation-friendly and creature-friendly understanding of the Godhead (p. 151). While holding to a traditional/orthodox understanding of the Trinity, this presentation of the Father as Gentleness, the Son as Solidarity, and the Holy Spirit as Fraternity “highlight[s] the different ways in which we experience God’s love” (p. 151). Further, inspired by Boff and the biblical witness, it helps us “glimpse something of the divine in relation to all creation” (p. 153; see further pp. 151–153, 159, 167). Second, her efforts to distinguish the connected but disparate concerns and priorities of ecological and animal theology—a discussion emerging largely from her critique of Boff’s Ecology and Liberation: A New Paradigm (1993; English translation 1995)—is welcome. As she explains in various places, the former’s attention to sustaining holistic systems as opposed to consideration of individual animals within them is more consequential in its implications than many realize (p. 34; cf. pp. 10, 174). She devotes a full chapter (pp. 85–117) to questions stemming from these different disciplines. Third, her attention to region-specific concerns in her theological work on Boff and animals is an instructive model (see, e.g., the series of interviews in the appendices, pp. 170–194). Boff is a contextual theologian (pp. 35, 77, 99–100, etc.), and Linzey introduces readers to the Brazilian setting that informs his writing (pp. 35–38). This illustration of contextually sensitive animal thought is helpful, serving to remind readers that regional/national cultural, political, and social issues shape animal welfare efforts. This thoroughly researched and innovative study is a valuable contribution to the field and is sure to (or at least ought to) prompt further attention to the place of animals in Catholic and liberation theological discourses in the years to come. Highly recommended. Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals. By Laura Duhan-Kaplan. (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021. 84 + ix pp. Paperback. $15.00. ISBN: 978-1-7252-5905-8.)
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.5406/21601267.13.1.10
Steven McMullen
fully meaningful only to it” (p. 195). In “The Stock Image,” Traisnel also touches upon Kantian philosophy, stating that we become aware of “the finitude of our sensorial faculties”—thus we cannot bridge any distance by “capturing” really anything (p. 157). In a heartbreaking finale, Traisnel makes this point frightenedly clear in that the capture regime leads to extinction. He recounts the heartbreaking fate of passenger pigeons in the sole survivor of Martha as the tragic result of biopower. Seen only through the lens of reproducibility, Martha remained infertile unto her death despite the best practices by conservationists. Understanding that we saw Martha as an object rather than as a subject who “sees” means that we, too, can only see her from our “milieu” as well. As a result, we can never really understand her infertility. Traisnel’s point to acknowledge animals at a distance is integral to a new ethics of care, and he is clear about what it should not look like. What it could like is left to the reader to ponder.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.5406/21601267.13.1.08
Lucille C. Thibodeau
Abstract:Saving Animals, a study of three different kinds of animal sanctuaries, is the first major ethnography to describe how sanctuaries "unmake" the notion of animals as property that reduces them to "bare life." The study relies on numerous engaging narratives about rescue animals, their mutual interactions, and their interactions with the people who care for them—narratives that illustrate how the sentience and subjectivity of animals provide a firm ground for the author's ethical considerations. An animal sanctuary is ideally an intentional community of cocitizens whose pragmatic and symbolic value resides in its ability to lay the foundation for a broad challenge to all violent practices of exploitation "targeted at a range of different others." The patient, incremental work of sanctuaries has implications not only for the future of human-animal relations but more broadly for the future of humans on the planet. The ultimate vision of sanctuaries is a world outside that mirrors the world inside, a pantopia where there will be no "others," only "us."
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.5406/21601267.13.1.01
Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey, Ivy Borgohain, Jessica C. Tselepy, Alison Stone, Sarah Dimaggio, Colin H. Simonds, Christene D'anca, Lucille C. Thibodeau, Linda M. Johnson, Seán Butler, Steven McMullen, Nathaniel Otjen, Jacob Wirshba, D. Cassuto, R. Malamud, Damiano Benvegnù, Michael J. Gilmour, Edward C. Sellner
Abstract:Ethical and theological concern for nonhuman animals has been a primary characteristic of the neo-Vaiṣṇava movement of Assam, India. This concern is reflected in its strict prohibition of blood sacrifice or any kind of cruelty toward animals. At the same time, theologically, this faith puts all living beings, human and nonhuman, on an equal ontological footing and urges its followers to see God in all creatures. The present article looks at some of these concerns/considerations of this faith for nonhuman animals and, at the same time, also takes into account neo-Vaiṣṇavism's historical backdrop and a few of its inner contradictions.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.5406/21601267.13.1.05
Sarah Dimaggio
Abstract:In this article, I argue that kinship implicitly operates as a normative ethical concept in Christine Korsgaard's account of animal ethics. I begin with an examination of the key theoretical foundations of Korsgaard's account and then examine the ways kinship operates as an ethical concept in her account, arguing that the ethical obligations she discusses are fundamentally grounded in a recognition of kinship with other animals. I conclude by recognizing that there are many remaining questions about kinship and animal ethics but that the concept holds significant potential for thinking about the ethical obligations that we have to nonhuman animals.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.5406/21601267.13.1.04
Alison Stone
Abstract:Frances Power Cobbe led the Victorian movement against vivisection. Cobbe is often remembered for her animal welfare campaigning, but it is rarely recognized that she approached animal welfare as a moral philosopher. In this article, I examine the philosophical basis of Cobbe's antivivisectionism. I concentrate on her 1875 article "The Moral Aspects of Vivisection," in which Cobbe first locates vivisection within the historical movement of Western civilization and the tendency for science to supersede religion and then endeavors to refute the defenses of vivisection one by one. I emphasize the philosophical considerations that led Cobbe to oppose animal experimentation on a reasoned basis.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1163/25889567-bja10033
Sara G. Pettit, S. McCulloch
Odontocetes, or ‘toothed whales’, have a complex brain structure and possess rationality, self-awareness, sociability and culture. Cognitive science and modern theories of personhood challenge the notion that humans alone are moral persons. This paper reviews evidence from the cognitive science literature relevant to moral personhood in bottlenose dolphins, orcas, and beluga whales. It applies theories of personhood of Peter Singer, David DeGrazia, and Steven Wise, and finds that odontocetes fulfil criteria to be granted at least borderline personhood. The legal implications of attributing personhood to dolphins remains uncertain. Recognition of dolphin personhood may lead to fundamental legal rights against capture, captivity, and killing; alternatively, the courts may continue to restrict legal personhood and associated protections to human beings. Finally, despite the major influence of personhood on morality and law in the West, the biologically more widespread quality of sentience is sufficient for greater moral considerability and legal protections for nonhuman species.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.1163/25889567-bja10034
E. Walsh
The popularity of puppies/dogs as companions/playmates/walking buddies was highlighted in Ireland with COVID-19 restrictions in March/2020, when the demand for puppies/dogs increased as people were confined to within 2/km of their homes. However, what was the rational supporting this trend, the influences/research undertaken by prospective owners? Two online-surveys were conducted, targeting veterinarians and behaviorists to establish motivation/attitude to owning dogs and behavioral issues being presented. Interviews by phone were conducted with the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Dog’s Trust and three Italian shelters for comparison purposes, to investigate the welfare of dogs during restrictions. An Garda Síochána (the National Police Service of Ireland) were contacted, to clarify the situation, in relation to dog theft and domestic abuse, which is strongly associated with animal abuse. Many factors may have influenced/impacted the epigenetic development of the behavior and resulting welfare of puppies/dogs, during this period.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1163/25889567-bja10032
Augusta Gaspar, Constança Carvalho
The socioemotional lives of animals have been brought to light over the years by studies seeking to address specific topics in animal emotion, cognition and behavior. Breakthrough information has been provided by field work with natural communities, and notable advances have stemmed from non-invasive research with captive animals and from laboratory work entailing varying degrees of invasiveness. But there is a source of information on animals that has not always been integrated in the knowledge on animals’ emotional lives: the outputs of studies where animals served as models of human emotional processes but that were seldom published as literature on animals. This article proposes an integrated view whereby the vast amount of information amassed by the brain and behavioral sciences over the course of the last 30 years on the affective experiences of animals, their triggers, biomarkers and behavioral correlates is fully integrated in an account of animal emotions. Topics where this knowledge can accommodate further integration from studies with animals models of the human mind are the parental care and different types of affective bonds; the experience of empathic reactions, the association between emotions, expressive behavior and affective bonds, and conscience. Fostering further connection between these neuroscience and behavioral studies might contribute to 1) widening the breath of measures used in assessing the well-being of animals, 2) widening criteria used by ethical committees considering studies with animals, and 3) to review some common practices that by those who have key roles in the management of wild or captive animals.
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