Citation
Marks, Joel (2016) End-state welfarism. Animal Sentience 7(6)
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Invited Commentary
Thread
Yew-Kwang Ng, How welfare biology and commonsense may help to reduce animal suffering
Abstract
Yew-Kwang Ng’s research is the work of an obviously sincere, intelligent, and conscientious animal advocate. But I am unable to accept his starting assumption that animal welfare is an appropriate basis for animal ethics. More specifically I argue that animal welfare as a means to animal liberation is an issue that can be debated, but animal welfare as the ultimate end or goal of animal advocacy is misguided.
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