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Abeille, Laurence
abolition of slavery
abolitionists vs. welfarists
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
advertising, false
Al-Ma’arri, Abû-l’Ala
Alexander the Great
Alie, Kelvin
Aliocha (blogger)
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World (Ricard)
amusement parks that massacre dolphins
anesthesia
“animal automata,” Descartes’s theory of
animal cultures
Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act
animal experimentation. See experimentation
animal exploitation
excuses and justifications for (see also corrida: justifications for)
ancestral traditions
animals do not suffer
having to choose between us and them
laws of nature
meat as necessary for health
need to make a living
superior human intelligence
there are more serious problems
how to keep the issue off the table (see also concealment of facts by perpetrators)
animal fighting
Animal Gospel (Linzey)
animal liberation, origin of the concept of
Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Singer)
animal liberation movement
animal rights
the disparity between law and practice
equal consideration vs. equal rights
integral vision of
moral agents and moral patients
in the sight of the law
See also duties toward animals; rights
“Animal Rights” (Linzey)
animal trainers
animalism
defined
animality, concept of
animals
the extent of suffering we inflict on
number killed
pronouns for
terminology
transformation of our attitude toward
viewed as inferior to humans
viewed as means to an end (see also instrumentalist view of animals)
Animals Asia Foundation
anthropic principle
anthropocene era, entering the
anthropocentric denial/anthropodenial
anthropocentric utilitarians
anthropocentrism
vs. anthropomorphism
See also human exceptionalism; human supremacism; speciesism
anthropomorphism vs. anthropocentrism
antibiotic use in livestock
Antonio, Luiz
Apollonius of Tyana
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
Aristophanes
Ashoka, Emperor
Asian traditions, viewpoint of the
Augustine, Saint
Austria
automatic emotional reactions
Bacon, Francis
bad company, fallacy of. See also good company
Bailly, Jean-Christophe
Bandura, Albert
Banks, Debbie
Baratay, Éric
Baudement, Émile
bear bile farms
bears, Asian black
Bedichek, Roy
Bekoff, Marc
Bell, Barbara
Bencheikh, Soheib
Bentham, Jeremy
Bériot, Louis
Bernard, Claude
“bestial”
Bible
Bishnoism
Boesch, Christophe
Boeuf, Gilles
bonobos
brains of omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans
Brosnan, Sarah
Buddha
Buddhism
vegetarianism and
Buffon, George-Louis de
Bugnyar, Thomas
bullfighting. See corrida Burch, Rex
Burgat, Florence
Bush, George W.
Busquet, Gérard
Butler, Virgil
Caetano, Sergio
calves
Cantor, David
captive animals, freeing
capture and transport of live animals, mass losses during
carbon dioxide emissions
carbon footprint
Carbonnier, Dean
“care,” the hypocrisy of
Caron, Aymeric
castration of pigs
categorical imperative
Catholic Church
Catholic thinkers
cats
illegal trade of
cattle. See also corrida
Chai, Norin
Chapouthier, Georges
Chauvet, David
Chewong
Chicago, Judy
chicken farms, industrial
children
bullfighting and
empathy for animals
reactions to meat consumption
truth from the mouths of
chimpanzees
attachment and grief in
genetics and comparison with other species
Jane Goodall and
mental faculties
China
bear bile in
dogs in
fishing in
industrial animal breeding in
meat consumption in
tigers in captivity in
wildlife trade and
China Wildlife Conservation Association
Chinese government, human rights, and animal rights
Christianity
Christians
Churchill, Winston
Cicero
circus animals
Civard-Racinais, Alexandrine
Claudel, Paul
Clemenceau, Georges
climate change, animal breeding and
Clostermann, Pierre
Coe, Sue
Coetzee, J. M.
cognitive distance and rationalization
cognitive processes, controlled
communication, animal. See also mental faculties of animals
compassion
and concern for animals and humans
concealment of facts by perpetrators
and the presumption of ignorance
See also animal exploitation: how to keep the issue off the table
consciousness
and rights
See also mental faculties of animals
consequentialism
conservation efforts
continuum of living beings. See also evolution; mental faculties of animals; speciesism; specific topics Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
cooperation
Copenhagen Zoo
Corbey, Raymond
corrida (bullfighting)
compared with industrial breeding and slaugterhouses
in France
justifications for
the “art” of killing
the bull exists only to be killed
corrida as a way to cultivate noble virtues
corrida as “contest with equal arms”
fight vs. flight of bull
freedom to kill
no wish to see harm done
“regional identity” and “uninterrupted local tradition”
thinkers and artists have understood and admired corrida
number of bulls killed
outlawing traditions only where they don’t exist
reasons the bull is the chosen adversary
suffering of the bull
teaching children to appreciate the ritual of the kill
writers, artists, and thinkers opposed to
Courreau, Jean-François
Courteline, Georges
Cove, The (film)
crows
Crutzen, Paul
cultural evolution, factors that facilitate changes and contribute to
cultures, different
Curtis, Stanley
Cyrulnik, Boris
Dalai Lama, Fourteenth (Tenzin Gyatso)
Darracq, Jean-Pierre
Darré, Richard
Darwin, Charles
on cooperation
on differences between humans and animals
evolution and
on the mental faculties of animals
respect and concern for animals
speciesism and
Darwinian revolution and its consequences
Daub, Jean-Luc
de-animalizing animals
de Fontenay, Élisabeth
de Waal, Frans B. M.
on anthropocentric denial (anthropodenial)
bonobos and
on emotions in animals
monkeys and
on morality and sense of fairness in animals
deer
“dehumanization.” See de-animalizing animals; devaluation of victims
denial
anthropocentric
of Holocaust
See also under suffering, animal
deontological point of view
Deriabkine, Vladimir
Derrida, Jacques
Descartes, René
desensitization
Despret, Vinciane
devaluation of victims. See also de-animalizing animals
Devienne, Philippe
Diamond, Jared
Diolé, Philippe
“direct duties” to animals
dissociation, mental
dogfights
dogs
abuse and torture of
in Asian cultures
characteristics associated with
contrasted with pigs
eating the meat of
hunting
illegal puppy trade
personalities and mental faculties of
philosophers on
speciesism and
used in experiments
dolphins
amusement parks that massacre
hunting and trafficking
domesticated animals
Dominguin, Luis Miguel
Donaldson, Sue
double process, theory of
Douglas, Leo
Draize test
Dresner, Samuel H.
Dulaurens, Henri-Joseph
Dunayer, Joan
duties toward animals
according to “humanist” philosophy
as “indirect duties” to humans
Earthlings (film)
“economic alibi”
egg production, industrial
Eisnitz, Gail
elephant
elephant tusks, the craze for
elephants
circus
killing
mental faculties
embarrassment
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
emotional reactions, automatic
emotions in animals
Frans de Waal on
Jane Goodall and
See also mental faculties of animals; pain; suffering
empathy
for animals
in animals
evolution of
vegetarianism, veganism, and human
employment, right to
endangered species
England
entertainment, animals as objects of. See also circus; corrida
environmental problems. See climate change; oceans
“equal arms,” bullfighting as a contest with
equal consideration vs. equal rights
ethics
Kant on
and the light shed by the neurosciences
three forms of
See also morality; specific topics
ethics committees, animal experimentation and
euphemistic language, use of
Euripides
European admiration for India and vegetarianism
European Council for Research (CER)
European Union (EU) directives
eusociality
“euthanizing”
evolution
and the continuum of life
(see also continuum of living beings)
Darwin and
history and
and superiority
vegetarianism and
exceptionalism. See human exceptionalism
excrement, animal
existentialists
experimentation, animal
alternative methods
anthropocentric utilitarians and
deontological point of view
extrapolating to humans based
on knowledge acquired by
popular opinion on
speciesism and
for trivial and unjustifiable reasons
extinctions. See also endangered species
Fabre, Jean-Henri
factory farms. See industrial animal breeding
“Farid de Mortelle”
Farrachi, Armand
Ferry, Luc
Fevrier, Raymond
fight vs. flight (vs. freeze)
Finland
Fisher, Andy
Fisher, Elizabeth
fishing
effects of intensive
for pleasure
See also sea creatures Fleming, Alexander
Fletcher, Wulstan
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Eating Animals
on industrial animal breeding
on seafood
foie gras
Fouts, Roger
France
animal experimentation in
bullfighting in
hunting and hunters in
industrial animal breeding in
legislation in
vegetarians in
Francione, Gary
Francis, Pope
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Franklin, Benjamin
“free range” animals
freedom to kill
French National Institute for Agricultural Research. See INRA
fresh water reserves, impact of animal production on
Functioning of the European Union, Treaty on the
Gand, Belgium, first vegetarian town
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma)
Gautier, Théophile
Genesis, Book of
Gennarelli, Thomas
genocide and zoocide
comparing without offending
comparison vs. analogy
definitions and terminology
differences between
duration of
goal of
memory of
methods of
motivation for
nature of reaction to
similarities between
victims of
identity of the
image of the
number of
See also Holocaust
Gent, Amanda
Germany
inclusion of animal rights in constitution
See also Holocaust
Gibert, Martin
on inclusive vs. exclusive humanism
on speciesism and human supremacism
on vegetarianism
global enterprise, a
Goetschel, Antoine
golden rule
good company, fallacy of. See also bad company
Goodall, Jane
on animal experimentation
chimpanzees and
emotions in animals and
on industrial animal breeding
vegetarianism and
Grandin, Temple
Granger, James
Greeks, ancient
Greene, Joshua
greenhouse gases
Gregory, Dick
Grenouilleau, Olivier
Griffin, Donald R.
Grímsson, Ólafur Ragnar
Grotius, Hugo
Haidt, Jonathan
halal slaughter
Haley, Fred C.
Hardouin-Fugier, Élisabeth
Harlow, Harry
Harrison, Ruth
Hasan al-Basri
Haupt, Christiane
health, meat eating and
Hebb, Donald Olding
Hedenus, Fredrik
Held, Suzanne
Helfer, Ralph
Hemingway, Ernest
hierarchy of power
Himmler, Heinrich
Hinduism
hippopotamuses aiding animals attacked by predators
“historical alibi”
Hobbes, Thomas
Hochschild, Adam
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Holocaust. See also genocide and zoocide
Höss, Rudolf
human exceptionalism. See also anthropocentrism; human supremacism; speciesism
human life and animal life opposition between
as “priceless”
human problems and animal exploitation
human supremacism. See also anthropocentrism; human exceptionalism; speciesism
humanism
“inclusive” vs. “exclusive”
metaphysical
humanist chauvinism
“humanist” duties toward animals
humans and animals
dissimilarity between
as fellow beings or something different
resemblance between
Hume, David
hunters
as protectors of nature
hunting
dolphins
with hounds
for pleasure/“sport”
See also poaching
Iceland
ideas, power of
Ikhwan al-Safa (Pure Brethren)
imitative instinct
“indirect duties” to humans, duties toward animals as
industrial animal breeding
harmful effects
out of sight, out of mind
the real face of
See also meat; slaughterhouses; specific topics
Ingold, Tim
INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research)
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique. See INRA
instrumentalist view of animals
See also animals: viewed as means to an end
instrumentalization of animals
abolition of
and instrumentalization of the world as a whole
intelligence, superior human
and the right to exploit animals
See also continuum of living beings; mental faculties of animals
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Islam
ivory trade
Jainism
Janet, Paul
Japan
Jeangène Vilmer, Jean-Baptiste
Jesus Christ
Jews. See also Holocaust
Joy, Melanie
Judaism
judgment
animals’ capacity for, (see also mental faculties of animals)
See also moral judgment
Jurek, Scott
Kant, Immanuel
on animals
categorical imperative
criticisms of
on ethics
on lying
Karuna-Shechen
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
Kephart, Kenneth
killing animals
“humanely”
as part of our ancestral traditions
Klimecki, Olga
Kojemiakine, Vladimir
Kook, Isaac
kosher slaughter
Kroeber, Alfred
Kundera, Milan
Kymlicka, Will
La Fontaine, Jean
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
LaCapra, Dominick
Laffont, Auguste
Lamartine, Alphonse de, Lambin, Éric
Lanjouw, Annette
Lankavatara Sutra
Lappé, Frances Moore
Larue, Renan
Lautard, Henri
legislation
inadequate and barely enforced laws
Leiris, Michel
Lennox, Margaret A.
Lepeltier, Thomas
Lépine, Louis
Lestel, Dominique
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lewis, Carl
life, struggle for, as part of the laws of nature
Linzey, Andrew
Long, Alan
“love your neighbor as yourself”
Luke, Brian
macaques
Malebranche, Nicolas
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Mānava-Dharmaśāstra (“Laws of Manu”)
Mandeville, Bernard de
Marguénaud, Jean-Pierre
on animal experimentation
European directives and
massacre
defined
See also genocide and zoocide
Matsuzawa, Tetsuro
McIntosh, Michael
meat
alleged to be necessary for health
and human health
for rich countries costs a lot for poor countries
terminology for (see euphemistic language)
media, keeping industrial meat production out of the
mental faculties of animals
Darwin on
See also empathy; intelligence
mentaphobia
Meslier, Jean
metaphysical humanism
methane emissions
Meyer, Jean Marie
Midgley, Mary
Mill, John Stuart
Miller, Bode
monkeys
capuchin
Monod, Théodore
Monod, Wilfred
Monroe, Kristen
Monson, Shaun
Moore, John Howard
moral agents and moral patients
moral behavior in animals
moral judgment. See also ethics
moral sense, turning off our
moral sense theory. See sentimentalism morality
as an ability that comes from evolution
See also ethics; specific topics
Morris, Desmond
Moses, Edwin
nature
humans as having extracted themselves from
laws of
Navratilova, Martina
negationism. See also denial Nepal
Nerson, Roger
Neumann, Jean-Marc
neutrality, effects of
Newton, Isaac
nitrous oxide emissions
nociception
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) dedicated to protection of the environment and animals, rise of
nonviolent resistance, principle of
Nordmann, Jean-François
Nouët, Jean-Claude
Nouvian, Claire
Nowak, Martin
Nussbaum, Martha
O’Barry, Richard
oceans, “ecocide” in
Onfray, Michel
organic vs. traditional breeding
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Orthodox Church
“other”
Ovid
Oxford Group
Pachauri, Rajendra Kumar
pain, animals feeling. See also anesthesia; suffering
Parmentier, Rémi
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Perdue, Frank
pesticides. See also organic vs. traditional breeding
Petit, Benoît
vegetarianism and
philosophy, Western
pig farms, industrial
pigeons, mental faculties of
pigs, characteristics associated with
Pius XII, Pope
Plato
Plutarch
poaching
Porcher, Jocelyne
on the analogy with Nazi extermination camps
on industrial animal breeding
INRA and
Porphyry
possession
predatory behavior, as part of the laws of nature
Primatt, Humphrey
protein sources
Pure Brethren (Ikhwan al-Safa)
Pythagoras
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Rachels, James
racism. See speciesism, racism, and sexism
rationalist philosophers
rationalization and cognitive distance
reason and human kindness, an appeal to
reciprocity, rights and
red meat consumption and health
Regan, Tom
on animal experimentation
on animal rights
criticisms of Kant
equal consideration, equal rights, and
respect, value, and
on similarities between animals and humans
religions of the book. See also Christianity; Islam; Judaism
Renaut, Alain
Rensch, Bernhard
respect
lack of
right to
See also specific topics
respectful coexistence
rhinoceros, empathy in
rhinoceros horns, the craze for
rights
conceptions of
need to be conscious to have
and reciprocity
See also animal rights; duties toward animals
Robinson, Jill
Rockström, Johan
Rollin, Bernard
Roman Empire
Rome, Treaty of
Rosen, David
Rouget, Patrice
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Runcie, Robert
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, William
Ryder, Richard
Sacks, Jonathan
sacrifice, animal
sacrifice, human
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de
Salt, Henry Stephens
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Satyagraha
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schweitzer, Albert
scientific research, freedom of
“scientific” vegetarianism
scientists. See also experimentation
sea creatures. See also fishing
Sémelin, Jacques
“sentient being,” defining
sentimentalism
sexism. See speciesism, racism, and sexism
shame
Shantideva
shark fins, the craze for
sharks
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sherrington, Charles
Sichuan Forestry Department
Sidgwick, Henry
silence, effects of
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Peter
on animal experimentation
Animal Liberation
animal liberation and
equal consideration, equal rights, and
on euphemisms
on speciesism
on vegetarianism
Singer, Wolf
Singh, Fauja
slaughter
freeing animals marked for
kosher
slaughterhouses
do not enter
exclusive concern about the bottom line
See also industrial animal breeding
slavery
abolition of
animal abuse compared with
principle elements of the practice of
Smith, Adam
Smith, Christopher
soul
Spain
species, unique abilities of each
speciesism
animal experimentation and
Darwin and
defined
origin of the concept of
See also animal exploitation: excuses and justifications for; anthropocentrism; human exceptionalism; human supremacism
speciesism, racism, and sexism
anti-speciesism as containing a contradiction
respecting life and each species’ abilities and potentials
Spinoza, Baruch
Spira, Henry
Stich, Stephen
Strum, Shirley
Stuart, Tristram
suffering, animal
in bullfighting
denial of the capacity for and nature of
See also pain
Sufis
Sukhdev, Pavan
supremacism. See human supremacism Switzerland
Taine, Hippolyte
Taylor, Charles
technical slaughter
television, industrial meat production is never shown on
Thiruvalluvar
tiger skins
tigers
Tolstoy, Leo
torture of dogs
toxicity tests, animal
trolley problem
Tryon, Thomas
Tuchman, Barbara
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Kundera)
United Action for Animals
United Nations (UN)
utilitarianism
anthropocentric
value of human life and animal life
Varela, Francisco
Varma, Keshav
vegans and veganism
vegetarianism
in France
in India
Martin Gibert on
omnivores’ attitudes toward
Peter Singer on
philosophers and
rise of
“scientific”
“Vegetarianism and Its Enemies” (Larue)
vegetarians
“good” vs. “bad”
personality traits
veterinarians
Vick, Michael
virtue
ethics of
virtues, corrida as a way to cultivate noble
vitamin B12
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de
water resources. See fresh water reserves
welfarists vs. abolitionists
Wells, H. G.
whale chanting
whaling
wildlife trade, illegal
bleeding the ecology and martyring
animals
corruption, organized crime, and terrorist groups
craze for elephant tusks, rhinoceros horns, and shark fins
hot spots and pivotal points in
inadequate or barely enforced laws
mass losses during capture and transport
organizations concerned with
twilight of the tiger
Wildlife Trust of India (WTI)
Wirsenius, Stefan
Wolff, Francis
on animalism
on anti-speciesism
on bullfighting
on duties
fallacy of good company and
on mental faculties of animals
universal principles and
Yogashastras
Zaldívar Laguía, José Enrique
Zimbardo, Philip
Zola, Émile
zoocide. See genocide and zoocide
zoos
creating reserves and teaching animals to live in the wild again
as show prisons vs. Noah’s Arks
when the animals are no longer needed
Zozaya, Antonio