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On a planet where habitat destruction and species extinction threaten the
balance of life, Animals and World Religions
explores what sacred texts and teachings have to say about our place in the
universe and rightful relations with animals.
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This wide-ranging collection of essays (indigenous traditions, contemporary
Wicca, Indian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern religions) unveils the
uncompromising beauty of religious ethics, inviting readers to think about
how they live in light of their spiritual convictions.
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In Search of Consistency
is the most comprehensive examination to date of moral theories and animal
ethics. This large volume unveils and explores the work of Tom Regan
(rights theory), Peter Singer (utilitarian), Paul Taylor (environmental
ethics), and Andrew Linzey (theology), not only digging deep into critical
analysis of extant theories, but feeding the flames of a now flourishing
dialogue at the intersections of animal ethics, environmental ethics, and
religious ethics. This book ultimately presents a new approach—the
Minimize Harm Maxim, which exposes, through real and hypothetical
scenarios, common practices as patently irrational and raises questions few
authors are willing to entertain about the way we value life and our
attitudes toward death. At every turn, In Search of Consistency
reminds that ethics carry an expectation of action, that ethics are
intended to guide how we live.
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Earth was once rich with primates, but each
species—except one—is now endangered because of
just one primate: Homo sapiens. Meat industries threaten both
South American and African primates. Roughly one hundred
primate spe- cies live in Brazil, a nation where rain forests
are leveled to pasture cattle in order to export meat to
wealthy consumers. Africa’s bushmeat trade (trade in non-
human primate flesh) has been augmented by logging roads that
wind deep into once isolated habitat. West Africa’s
bonobos, perhaps our closest relatives, have been devastated by
the bushmeat trade: “In one human generation, 90 percent
of the Bonobos have disappeared” (Brown 2008, 102). Miss
Waldron’s red colobus monkeys (also of West Africa) have
been driven to probable extinction by the human appetite for
their flesh.
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