Portrait of a cow - What stories can these eyes tell us?

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Portrait einer Kuh - Welche Geschichten können uns diese Augen erzählen?

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Today, in my Animals and the Environment module, we discussed utilitarianism and animal agriculture. I got my students to create handouts during the seminar explaining the two readings I gave them: Singer’s ‘All Animals are Equal’ and Zangwill’s ‘Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat’. I can’t say they found either paper compelling, but their handouts were really good. Quote from the day from one student: ‘It’s making me think, I don’t like it.’ #animalethics #philosophy #animalrights

I’m not convinced seemingly trivial language changes like this meaningfully impact animal welfare. But I’m open to being convinced! Any good research looking into this question?
#vegan #animalrights #animalliberation #animalethics

Just moved here from mastodon.au.
For #introduction, a few hashtags that come to mind:

#AnimalAgriculture needs to be phased out
#AnimalEthics
#AnimalProtection
#animals
#auspol
#climate
#ClimateEmergency
#climatehealth
#CovidIsNotOver
#dogs
#environment
#FoodSystem
#HealthPolicy
#MMT
#philosophy
#PlantBased
#PublicHealth
#SciFi
#vegan for the animals

I live in Melbourne, Australia.
Occasionally, I post in #German. #deutsch

What could go wrong with such interference in a #natural process? Also, is it #ethical to mislead another #species this way?

"Combining miniature robotics, #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI ) and #MachineLearning, the plan is for the #robotic #bees to stimulate egg laying in the queen by, for example, feeding her the right foods at the right time"

"Robotic bees and roots offer hope of healthier #environment and sufficient #food"

@philosophy #AnimalEthics #Ethics

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-robotic-bees-roots-healthier-environment.html

#Introduction I'm Jonathan. I've got a whole lot of interests that flow from the basic ideas that; suffering and exploitation are bad, happiness and morphological freedom/freedom in general are good, that the above applies to all sentient beings, and that there are a lot of things we can and should do about that.
Moved from Mastodon.lol to veganism.social.

Tldr: Total Liberationist, Abolitionist of the animal / political / bioethical kind. Vegan/Antispeciesist. Atheist interested in religion. Beginner anarchist. Needs to read more.

For a more in depth thread see:
https://mastodon.lol/@SentientJohnny/109785003078200685

#AnimalRights #AnimalLiberation #vegan #TotalLiberation #anarchist #AnimalEthics, #atheism #PhilosophyOfReligion #Sentientism #Introduction #Introductions

Portrait of an elder sunfish from a colony I like to visit on summertime river swims …

… plus some interests #AnimalCognition #AnimalBehavior #AnimalEthics #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights #AnimalStudies #Anthrozoology #Botany #Conservation #ConservationBiology #Ecology #Ecomodernism #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalStudies #Ethology #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #MarineBiology #MoreThanHuman #Multispecies #PhilosophyOfMind #PlantStudies #PoliticalEcology #Sustainability #Vegan

Finally found out how to follow hashtags and starting to feel like I'm getting the hang of this. So, time for a re-#introduction: I work in #philosophy, where I specialise in #AnimalCognition, #AnimalEthics, #AnimalBehavior, #PhilosophyOfAnimalMinds. I work interdisciplinarily and aim to be in a dialogue with folks from #Ethology and #ComparativePsychology. I'm also interested in #BehavioralEcology, #Evolution, #AnimalWelfare, #AnimalStudies, and all things #Science. Happy to be here! :)