Cognitive relatives yet moral strangers? Killing great apes and dolphins for food

J. Benz-Schwarzburg

Cognitive relatives yet moral strangers? Killing great apes and dolphins for food

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J. Benz-Schwarzburg

J. Benz-Schwarzburg Messerli Research Institute, Department of Ethics and Human-Animal Studies, Vetmed Vienna and University of Vienna, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria; benzschwarzburg@googlemail.com

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Page Range:: 455–461

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867530_0072

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More and more species are being recognized as our ‘cognitive relatives’, sharing complex socio-cognitive abilities with us. What has been neglected so far, however, are the ethical implications arising from our growing knowledge on such dimensions of relatedness. Some philosophers claim that we should at least reconsider the moral status of those species which resemble us the most. They specifically refer to great apes and dolphins, while presupposing that the moral community is in principle open to other species as well. Accordingly, at least great apes and dolphins should be treated as non-human persons holding at least some basic personal rights (including the right to life or the right not to be tortured). Besides the question of extended rights, welfare and conservation issues arise from the way we still treat our cognitive relatives. We even kill great apes and dolphins for food, using highly destructive and unsustainable hunting methods. My presentation updates the case of animal rights by giving an overview on great ape and dolphin cognition as well as on the rights claims of Cavalieri and Singer (1994) and White (2007). Secondly, I will focus on the actual situation of great apes and dolphins in the wild. It will become obvious, that we are in fact far away from granting them minimum welfare standards – let alone basic rights. A whole network of extinction drivers is being identified. I will focus on the ones which are directly linked to food ethics: while dolphins and whales are being threatened by whaling or drive hunts and end up as bycatch, great apes are threatened by the bushmeat crisis. Thus, ‘food issues’ (among many other issues) play a vital role in the way we interact with our closest cognitive relatives.

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Climate change and sustainable development

Ethical perspectives on land use and food production

ISBN:: 9789086867530

出版社:: Wageningen Academic

印刷出版日期:: 15 Nov 2012

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