Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics (original) (raw)

by clearly opposing animal suffering, while discussing the killing of animals only by way of questions. See also Singer (1993): 125, where Singer does not principally oppose the routine killing of at least some animals. More recently, due to new insights about the capacities of animals such as pigs and fish, Singer (forthcoming 2011: ch. 5) is more critical about the routine killing of pigs, cattle and the other animals that usually end up on people´s plates. 5 Sandoe (2008): 80-81. See also Animal Ethics Dilemma (www.ae.imcode.com), a program for teaching animal ethics, developed by Sandoe and others, where the utilitarian position is presented as favouring animal welfare, while, unlike the 'rights view', not being opposed to the killing of animals. See also Norcross (2004), who eloquently attacks the torturing of animals in intensive animal husbandry while not mentioning whether the routine killing of animals is a moral problem.