In this episode of Knowing Animals Dr. Clare McCausland discussed her article ‘The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare are Rights’ which appeared in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, August 2014, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp 649-662. She argues that we have misunderstood the distinction between animal welfare and animal …continue
In this episode Dr. Dinesh Wadiwel talks about his article: Wadiwel, D. (2014), ‘The will for self-preservation: Locke and Derrida on dominion, preservation and animals’, SubStance, 134:43, pp. 148 – 161. What do Locke and Derrida have in common? What is systematic violence against animals? Which thinker influenced Dinesh and …continue
OUR CAMELS – FERAL OR THOROUGHLY AUSTRALIAN? A recent paper written by Leah Gibbs, Jennifer Atchison & Ingereth Macfarlane & published in Geoforum raises many questions about the place of camels in Australia. When do we accept that a species belongs here? What does the story of the camel have …continue
This week we speak with Clair Linzey, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and discuss their upcoming summer school and major report, “Normalising the Unthinkable – The ethics of using Animals in Research”. http://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/ Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. A weekly show hosted …continue
