Animals Rachel Robison-Greene | 6 Oct 2022 Meat Replacements and the Logic of the Larder Some justifications for carnivorous behavior offer very little meat.
Animals Benjamin Rossi | 5 Oct 2022 Why Speciesism Is Not a Prejudice Speciesism and racism have much less in common than we typically assume.
Wanted Dead: Should We Place Bounties on Invasive Species? Do "invaders," like the green iguana, deserve to be destroyed? 4 Oct 2022 | Nicholas Kreuder
The Painful Truth About Insects What happens when we discover that even mosquitos have interests? 3 Oct 2022 | Daniel Burkett
Reasons and Elephants (and Persons) 'Beast' or 'being'? How do we justify the bright line we draw determining legal protection? 12 Sep 2022 | A.G. Holdier
The Animal Ethics of OrganEx Can we justify the deliberate slaughter of animal subjects when available alternatives exist? 19 Aug 2022 | Richard Gibson
Is “Personhood” a Normative or Descriptive Concept? How entities get categorized is invariably a loaded determination filled with additional ethical baggage. 28 Jun 2022 | Matthew S.W. Silk
Monkeypox’s Biggest Threat Might Be to Wild Animals What responses are justified in attempting to insulate ourselves from the risk of zoonotic diseases? 7 Jun 2022 | A.G. Holdier
Is the Pain of Wild Animals Always Bad? Should humans intervene to prevent even the "useless pain" of animals in the wild? 11 Apr 2022 | T. Parker Haratine
Are Self-Spreading Vaccines the Solution to Potential Future Pandemics? Are the duties we have to the natural world and its inhabitants best fulfilled through programs of modification or restoration? 8 Apr 2022 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Should We Intervene to Help Wild Animals? Might humans be responsible for protecting wildlife from the torment of parasites and disease? 7 Apr 2022 | Dustin Crummett
The Pugly Truth Human-guided breeding is responsible for life-threatening deformity. 24 Feb 2022 | Daniel Burkett
Rise of the Human-Animal Hybrids: The Ethics of Xenotransplantation The jury is still out on the ethics surrounding this modern miracle. 10 Feb 2022 | Evan Arnet
Curfews and the Liberty of Cats Is it time we mount an intervention to keep our feline friends away from the night life? 13 Dec 2021 | Daniel Burkett
In Defense of Eating Dogs Are there any moral considerations separating different kinds of meat? Cultural attitudes tell us one thing, but what might consistency demand? 7 Oct 2021 | Tim Hsiao
Do Insects Matter? On what grounds might we justifiably distinguish between those with interests and those without them? 15 Sep 2021 | Dustin Crummett
Is It Time to Show the Lobster a Bit of Respect? Is an animal's experience of pain the best (only?) metric by which to justify our treatment of them? 12 Jul 2021 | Matthew S.W. Silk
The Ethics of Animal Dis-Enhancement We need to interrogate the realities that demand we sacrifice our moral ideals and live with second-best solutions. 14 Jun 2021 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Under Discussion: Can In Vitro Meat Help Fix What Cattle Ranching Has Broken? Do the harms of industrial agriculture make the switch to lab-grown meat a moral necessity? 22 Dec 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Under Discussion: Animal Dignity and Cultured Meat Does the very existence of lab-grown meat encourage us to continue to discount animal interests? 22 Dec 2020 | Benjamin Rossi
Under Discussion: Aristotelian Temperance and Cultured Meat Lab-grown meat might lessen the instances of animal cruelty, but its invention also betrays an inability to keep our appetites in check. 21 Dec 2020 | A.G. Holdier
Elephants Are People Too Under what conditions might a creature to become a rights-bearer? Who should get to decide? 10 Dec 2020 | Rachel Robison-Greene