Chapter 12 Questions

Intensive Animal Farming and Moral Status
  1. How can we formulate and defend an argument for abolishing intensive animal farming based on a concern with suffering?
  1. How can we formulate and defend an argument for abolishing intensive animal farming based on a concern with killing?
  1. On what grounds, if any, may we privilege the interests of humans over those of animals? What are the implications of this for intensive animal farming?
  1. Is it permissible for the state to force an individual to comply with their moral duties to animals?
  1. Should the state abolish intensive animal farming?
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