Final Flashcards
Aristotle
Animals and humans can share emotion and perception but humans are better because they can speak and reason
St. Thomas Aquinas
Christian flavour to Aristotle
Animals do not have immortal souls
Concerned about the people who treat animals poorly
Renee Descartes
Animals as machines
Animals have emotions but not thoughts
John Locke
Human nature allows people to be selfish
Animals show evidence of memory and have god-given rights, believed animals can suffer just not form abstractions
Immanuel Kant
Never ever lie
Instrumental value: Animals may be treated as a means to an end
Difference between humans and animals is humans have rationality
Jeremy Bentham
Argued that it is the consequences of actions that matter
The question is not can they reason or can they talk but can they suffer
Access consciousness
Captures the sense in which mental responses may poise for use in the control of action/ speech
OIE
world organization for animal health
The intergovernmental organization responsible for improving animal health worldwide
Federal legislations
The health of animals act
Meat inspection act
Meat inspection regulations
Provincial lesiglations
Transport regulations (humain transport)
Livestock community sales act
Food safety and quality act