Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Veganism & Green Political Thought
- How do we represent animals?
- Plumwood
- Human/nature dualism replaced by animal/nature dualism
- We are no longer ecologically embedded - as food
- vegan ecofeminism refuses to challenge this dualism
- Waste products
- Feminist veganism can't prioritise different types of farming
- exploitation is exploitation is exploitation
- Distiction between harm and exploitation
- Breeding an animal for use is exploitation
- Using the waste products of the animal might not be
- eg sheeps wool, eggs, might fulfil this criteria
- Waste Products
- TO WHAT EXTENT IS VEGANISM A FORM OF ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE RATHER THAN PURELY JUSTICE TO ANIMALS POSITION?
- Veganism is its own special form of justice which goes further than ecological justice
- Nussbaum
- Bringing animals behind the veil of ignorance
- Blame for suffering (or lack of) is important
- Problems with singer/utilitarianism
- The question of numbers: does bringing agribusinessed animals into the world increase suffering?
- Capabilities approach
- address the need for a rich plurality of life activities
- An ecological justification: diversity and interdependence as morally good
- Important distinction between the individual and the species
- Search for consciousness rather than abstract principles
Anmerkungen:
- trappers or badger shooters might profess a defence of the species but not the individual
Anmerkungen:
- The importance of Speciesism as a form of oppression
Anmerkungen:
- FIND A USE FOR FUNGIBLE
- Baxter - ecological justice
- Contributions to ecosphere
- Key stone species, trophic cascades
- Humans as negative sum for the environment
- Therefore less worthy of justice?
- Nozick can't find room for those lacking autonomy