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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Subsistence Hunting plus Zoos

TYPES OF HUNTING
Survival hunting
"Canned" hunting
Sport hunting (for food)
Trophy hunting
Subsistence hunting

WHAT REALLY MATTERS?
(directly and inherently)
  1. only individual humans (e.g. Kant, who disapproves of sport hunting)
  2. only individual humans and animals (e.g. Regan and Singer, who disapprove of sport hunting)
  3. only whole ecosystems (e.g. pure environmental holists, who disapprove of hunting only when it damages an ecosystem)
  4. individual humans, individual animals and whole ecosystems (e.g.modern environmental holists)
  5. individual humans and individual animals and whole ecosystems and species (e.g. advocates of US Endangered Species Act)
  6. individual humans and individual animals and ecosystems and species and cultures (e.g. people who give some weight to preserving a cultural practice apart from its harm/benefit to individual humans and animals, ecosystems, or species)

ESKIMO WHALE HUNTING 
Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling
How does it look, from the six standpoints above?



WHAT ABOUT ZOOS?
Impact on individual animals vs. impact on species 
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