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Discuss the implications of moral consideration on some of the following practices
involving nonhuman animals: meat-eating habits, pet ownership, the use of nonhuman
animals in experimentations, and keeping animals in zoos.
● In what ways, if any, do any of the above actions represent incompatible,
even contradictory, moral values?
● Do humans have a moral obligation to modify our lifestyle in order to
ecognize the moral status of nonhuman others?
● Do you believe any of the nonhuman animals mentioned above (pets, farmed
animals, zoo animals, etc.) would qualify as moral subjects, and perhaps
even moral agents?
● Which ethical theory (utilitarian, social contract, Kantian, etc.) is most
consistent with your outlook on animals?