CHALLENGING IDEAS ON HUMAN-NONHUMAN RELATIONS

The pamphlet begins by addressing the language we commonly use to refer to nonhuman animals. I then go on to state why nonhuman animals are worthy of moral consideration - I point to the capacity to suffer as the characteristic that determines moral worthiness and I explain how our ideas about sentience and suffering have evolved from the Cartesian view that nonhuman animals are 'merely automatons'. I then go on to discuss anthropocentric thinking not only from the perspective of human-nonhuman relations but also Kropotkin's writings ...[Read more]