Idea that individual animals have an interest in their lives and a corresponding right not to suffer or be killed (associated with Regan); see also animal welfare.
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Animal welfare
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Idea that animal suffering matters and that we should not cause unnecessary harm to animals (associated with utilitarianism and Singer); see also animal rights.
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Fair chase
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Idea in hunting ethics that the animal should stand some chance and the hunter requires some skill and good luck.
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Sentience
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The ability to feel, perceive, and be conscious of the world, used in discussions of animal welfare and abortion in considering the moral status of animals and fetuses.
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Speciesism
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A pejorative term used to describe anthropocentrists, who maintain that human beings are superior to nonhuman animals (associated with Singer).
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One prudential argument for vegetarianism is that it probably gives one a healthier diet.
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true
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To argue that animals have rights is to appeal to
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true
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If animals have value only in so far as they are useful for humans, then they have only instrumental, not intrinsic, value.
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true
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From the anthropocentric perspective the idea that we should curtail human activities to preserve a nonhuman species is generally anchored in which of our ethical theories?
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utilitarianism
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Animals are moral patients if what we do to them matters morally.
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true
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Animal experimentation appeals to ________ reasoning?
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utilitarian
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About how many animals are used for experiments each year in the US?
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25 million
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To say that an animal is sentient means that it has certain desires and interests.
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false
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Singer begins his argument by comparing animal rights to
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women's rights
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