Tag Archives: Animal Rights
Canada’s Complicity in the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins
Andrew Fenton outlines the Government of Canada’s failure to live up to Canadian law on cetacean captivity and raises doubts about merely extending efforts to phase out the captivity of other large mammals.
We Can’t Export Away our Legally Recognized Duties to Captive Cetaceans
Andrew Fenton outlines the ethical and legal reasons against sending Marineland’s captive beluga whales to facilities in other countries.
The Ethics of Companion Animal Abandonment in Times of Crisis
Andrew Fenton and Timothy Krahn analyze some of the ethical issues at stake when humans are forced to abandon their companion animals in a time of crisis.
Confronting a manifest injustice: toward chimpanzee rights
Andrew Fenton reflects on Judge Fahey’s recent concurring opinion on the Nonhuman Rights Project’s efforts to get two captive chimpanzees to sanctuary.
Philosophers’ Brief on Chimpanzee Personhood
Andrew Fenton and L. Syd M Johnson report on the recent public release of an amicus brief supporting chimpanzee personhood, created by 17 philosophers as a part of the Nonhuman Rights Project’s efforts to get two captive chimpanzees to a sanctuary.
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