You Can't Betray a Fish: One Reason Eating Fish May Cause Less Harm Than Eating Cows
| Autor: | Ronald G. Oldfield |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Animal Ethics. 12:51-58 |
| ISSN: | 2160-1267 2156-5414 |
| Popis: | In The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?, Bohanec (2013) proposed that farmed animals raised humanely may experience betrayal when slaughtered. I argue based on personal experience that humans often betray trust relationships with farmed animals. Using published scientific literature, I find that typical farmed animals (mammals) and farmed fishes are both cognitively capable of a rudimentary experience of betrayal. However, the manner in which fishes are typically maintained does not present opportunities for human-fish trust relationships to develop. Eating farmed fishes presents fewer ethical implications than eating cows, at least in some cases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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