Journal of Animal Ethics

ISSN: 2156-5414

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    The Moral Ambiguity of Animal-Assisted Therapy and the Conflicts of Medicalizing Another Social Species.Katherine Fletcher - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):17-31.
    The social relationships between humans and our closest nonhuman species (e.g., dogs, cats, and horses) are complex and subject to change. This complexity contradicts the popular phenomenon of using these animals in medical interventions for mental health (i.e., animal assisted therapy). This article uses anthropological research and ethnographic examples from the Central Coast, Australia, to exemplify the conflicts, contradictions, and realities of our companion animals’ relationship to human mental health. Using a phenomenological perspective, the article examines the complex realities in (...)
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    The Struggle for Ethical Compassion in Robert Burns's “To a Mouse”.Malcolm Hay - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):32-39.
    As a farmer from Ayrshire, Robert Burns's subsistence depended on successful interactions with farmed animals. This close contact with nonhumans conditions his poetry on animals. Even the free-living beings he documents are mediated by his agrarian experience. If his background as a farmer allows Burns to study animals on a daily basis, his poet persona permits him to document their activities with fidelity. The ethical dilemma, though, this dual position created in Burns's poems, foregrounds difficulty in negating the imbalance of (...)
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    Should Animal Advocates Support the Ritualized Release of Sentient Beings?Katie Javanaud - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):1-4.
    The use of animals in ceremonial contexts is universal. Throughout history, across cultures, in both religious and secular settings, animals are often seen as mere symbols rather than as individuals with the capacity to be harmed in ritual performances. While some ritualized uses of animals are unquestionably cruel (e.g., the Islamic ritual sacrifice of sheep at Eid al-Adha), the morality of other uses (e.g., the ritual release of animals at Buddhist festivals) is less certain. This article examines what stance animal (...)
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    Transmitted Perceptions of Animals: How China Shaped Japan's View of the Nonhuman World.Melissa Ann Kaul - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):5-16.
    The Japanese are rumored to have a deep understanding of nature and therefore a deeper bond to the natural world as well as the creatures that inhabit it. However, recent studies to determine the attitudes, knowledge, and behavior of the Japanese toward free-living animals have proven the popular image of a nature-loving people to be misleading. Instead, the results have displayed an almost frightening ethical and ecological indifference toward free-living animals. In order to understand this contradictory attitude toward nonhuman animals, (...)
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    An Application of the 4Ns to Pronatalism: Implications for Animal Welfare.Jenny L. Mace - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):40-55.
    The 4Ns constitute four broad categories—normal, natural, necessary, and nice—into which justifications for the cultural practice of consuming certain animals (carnism) fall. Here, the 4Ns are applied to another ideology that also negatively impacts nonhuman animals: pronatalism, the cultural and political pressures to have your own biological children. Pronatalism has led to overpopulation and overconsumption, which are major drivers of factory farming and habitat destruction. In this context, the 4Ns are critiqued and countered. Those involved in animal welfare/ethics are encouraged (...)
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    Unbridled Right to Reproduce for Domesticated Animals—More Harm Than Good? A Reply to Siemieniec.Joan Schaffner - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):93-98.
    Unrestricted reproductive rights for domesticated animals, including the right to roam freely, will have serious consequences for domesticated animals in today's world. While political and legal theories focus on population control to justify fertility restrictions, they do so to save animals’ lives, and one consequence of restricting domesticated animals’ reproductive rights is many more animal deaths. Further, theorists have explored whether population control methods unjustifiably infringe on animals’ rights and argue that at least some are not only justified but arguably (...)
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  7. Restoring Creation: The Natural World in the Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives of Cuthbert and Guthlac.Edward Sellner - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):115-116.
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    Sexual and Reproductive Rights for Domesticated Animals: Beyond Population Control, Toward Affirming Bodily Integrity and Self-Determination.Paulina Siemieniec - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):67-92.
    Political and legal theories of animal rights tend to raise the issue of domesticated animals’ sexuality and reproduction as a matter of population management and therefore concentrate too narrowly on providing justification for fertility restrictions. In this article, I argue that the normative logic underpinning the historical evolution and conceptual development of the fundamental right to health in international law, in its paradigm shift from population control to health rights, is consistent with initiating a similar transition in the domesticated animal (...)
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    Two Poets as Animal Thinkers: Christopher Smart (1722–1771) and William Stafford (1914–1993).Lucille C. Thibodeau - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):56-66.
    Even though many poets have shone a light on the lives of other-than-human animals, poems remain a rich yet largely unexplored source of ethical sensitivity toward them. I will argue that an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of animals as depicted in works by Christopher Smart (1722–1771) and William Stafford (1914–1993) can lead directly to an apprehension of the ethical significance of those animals. As captured in their poems, the beauty of animals—their embodied subjectivity and individuality—compels disinterested attention as a (...)
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    The Role of Propaganda and Moral Disengagement Within Meat Industry Advertising.Helena Ellinor Widolf - 2025 - Journal of Animal Ethics 15 (1):99-114.
    Advertising produced by the meat industry aims to stimulate positive feelings and thoughts about the exploitation of nonhuman animals. Propaganda techniques, such as glittering generalities, euphemism, virtue signaling, framing, and appealing to authority all comprise strategies used by this industry to convince consumers of the worthiness and appeal of its products. Mechanisms of moral disengagement, such as displacement of responsibility, normalization, and joke-making/humorization have also been detected within almost all varieties of meat industry advertising. Within this milieu, meat industry advocates (...)
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