Theoria

Being the sort of person who reads – and comments – at blogs, I’ve found myself in discussions from time to time regarding the morality of animal use. Lately, the context has been the Canadian seal hunt and efforts by Native advocates to justify one form of seal hunt (traditional), but condemn another form (capitalist). [...]

(Fendrich’s post can be found here.) It is hardly a surprise given the subject matter, but you are grossly misinformed, but to act on this information in a public forum – one hosted by The Chronicle of Higher Education – is tantamount to an official admission of ignorance. Yes, PETA emerged out of activism, but [...]

After putting it off for far too long, I’ve started to read Erica Fudge’s Animal (2002). In the introduction she takes up the theme of Biblical dominion as a way to understand our “lived contradictions” in our relations to animals (e.g., how dogs and cats are pets, but cows and pigs are food). I’m sympathetic [...]