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Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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Is it acceptable to kill an animal that has been granted a pleasant
life? This book rigorously explores the moral basis of the ideal of
animal-friendly animal husbandry. Utilitarianism is recognised as
being the moral theory that, historically, has contributed most to
the recognition of animal suffering as an evil. This book sheds new
light on utilitarian moral theory by pointing out the assumptions
and implications of two different versions of utilitarianism. One
version, total utilitarianism, can indeed morally justify the
routine killing of animals, provided that they have been granted
pleasant lives. The other version, prior existence utilitarianism,
implies a much stronger protection for animals, both human and
non-human. Hence, in opposition to what is typically brought
forward in the classrooms and in the literature, the utilitarian
concern with animals need not be restricted to the avoidance of
suffering. Utilitarianism has the resources to oppose the routine
killing of animals, as practiced in animal husbandry and many other
common practices of animal use.
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