In Defense of Animals IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM1 IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM2 In Defense of Animals The Second Wave Edited by Peter Singer IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM3 © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd except for editorial material and organization © 2006 by Peter Singer BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Peter Singer to be identified as the Author of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1 2006 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data In defense of animals : the second wave / edited by Peter Singer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1940-5 (hard cover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4051-1940-3 (hard cover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-1941-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-4051-1941-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Animal welfare—Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Animal rights movement. I. Singer, Peter, 1946– HV4711.I6 2006 179′.3—dc22 2005009479 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 10.5/13pt Dante by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall The publisher’s policy is to use permanent paper from mills that operate a sustainable forestry policy, and which has been manufactured from pulp processed using acid-free and elementary chlorine-free practices. Furthermore, the publisher ensures that the text paper and cover board used have met acceptable environmental accreditation standards. For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: www.blackwellpublishing.com IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM4 Contents Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Peter Singer Part I The Ideas 1 Utilitarianism and Animals 13 Gaverick Matheny 2 The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals 26 Marian Stamp Dawkins 3 On the Question of Personhood beyond Homo sapiens 40 David DeGrazia 4 The Animal Debate: A Reexamination 54 Paola Cavalieri 5 Religion and Animals 69 Paul Waldau Part II The Problems 6 Speciesism in the Laboratory 87 Richard D. Ryder 7 Brave New Farm? 104 Jim Mason and Mary Finelli v IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM5 8 Outlawed in Europe 123 Clare Druce and Philip Lymbery 9 Against Zoos 132 Dale Jamieson 10 To Eat the Laughing Animal 144 Dale Peterson Part III Activists and Their Strategies 11 How Austria Achieved a Historic Breakthrough for Animals 157 Martin Balluch 12 Butchers’ Knives into Pruning Hooks: Civil Disobedience for Animals 167 Pelle Strindlund 13 Opening Cages, Opening Eyes: An Investigation and Open Rescue at an Egg Factory Farm 174 Miyun Park 14 Living and Working in Defense of Animals 181 Matt Ball 15 Effective Advocacy: Stealing from the Corporate Playbook 187 Bruce Friedrich 16 Moving the Media: From Foes, or Indifferent Strangers, to Friends 196 Karen Dawn 17 The CEO as Animal Activist: John Mackey and Whole Foods 206 John Mackey, Karen Dawn, and Lauren Ornelas 18 Ten Points for Activists 214 Henry Spira and Peter Singer A Final Word 225 Peter Singer Further Reading: Books and Organization Websites 228 Index 233 Contents vi IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM6 Notes on Contributors Matt Ball is co-founder of Vegan Outreach, a U.S based organization on the cutting edge of animal advocacy since 1991. An engineer by training, he was a Department of Energy Global Change Fellow and a Research Associate in the Biology Department at the University of Pittsburgh before working full-time for Vegan Outreach. He met his wife, Anne Green, while head of Students for Animal Liberation at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. They currently live in Pittsburgh with their daughter, Ellen, one of the top leafleters for the Vegan Outreach Adopt a College program. Martin Balluch was born in Vienna, Austria, where he studied mathematics and physics. He worked for twelve years as a research associate and lecturer at the Universities of Vienna, Austria, Heidelberg, Germany, and Cambridge, UK. He has been active for animal rights in Austria and other countries since 1985. In 1997, he dropped out of his academic career and has been a full-time activist in the Austrian animal rights movement since then. He co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and since 2002 has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories. Paola Cavalieri, who lives in Milan, Italy, is the editor of the international philosophy journal Etica & Animali. She is the author of The Animal Question and the co-editor, with Peter Singer, of The Great Ape Project. Marian Stamp Dawkins is Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Biological Sciences at Somerville College. She is the author of Animal Suffering: The Science of Animal Welfare, Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness, Unravelling Animal Behaviour, and, with Aubrey Manning, An Introduction to Animal Behaviour. vii IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM7 Henry Spira and Peter Singer Karen Dawn has worked as a researcher and writer for various Australian publications and on ABC’s 7:30 Report. She has written for The Los Angeles Times and The Guardian, and is a contributor to Terrorists or Freedom Fighters, an anthology edited by Steve Best and Anthony Nocella. Her media moni- toring service, DawnWatch.com, helps activists encourage animal-friendly coverage. Dawn hosts and co-produces the recurring series Watchdog, on Los Angeles’ KPFK radio. David DeGrazia is Professor of Philosophy at George Washington Univer- sity in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status, Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction, and Human Identity and Bioethics. With Thomas Mappes, he has coedited Biomedical Ethics in its fourth and subsequent editions. DeGrazia’s articles have appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Bioethics, and The Hastings Center Report. Clare Druce co-founded the pressure group Chickens’ Lib (now the Farm Animal Welfare Network) in the early 1970s, to oppose the battery system for laying hens. Since then, she has campaigned against a range of restrictive and abusive forms of animal husbandry. Her book Minny’s Dream, an adven- ture story for children that highlights the deprivation of hens imprisoned in cages, was published in 2004. Mary Finelli is a farmed animal advocacy consultant with a degree in animal science. She has worked for numerous animal protection organiza- tions since 1986, and initiated and wrote Farmed Animal Watch, a weekly news digest, from 2001 to 2004. Bruce Friedrich joined People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 1996, and is the director of their vegetarian and farmed animal campaigns. Before joining PETA, Bruce ran a shelter for homeless families and the largest soup kitchen in Washington, D.C. He has been a social justice advoc- ate for more than twenty years. Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University, and the author of Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. Philip Lymbery spent a decade working for Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), a leading European farm animal welfare organization. As CIWF’s Campaigns Director, he founded and coordinated the European Coalition for Farm Animals (ECFA). After two years as international animal welfare Notes on Contributors viii IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM8 Ten Points for Activists and campaigns consultant, Philip now works for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) as Director of Communications. Jim Mason grew up on a Missouri family farm. He is co-author with Peter Singer of Animal Factories: What Agribusiness is Doing to the Family Farm, the Environment, and Your Health. His book An Unnatural Order traces the roots of the dominant worldview of human supremacy over animals and nature. Gaverick Matheny is a Fellow in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. He also directs New Harvest, a nonprofit research organization developing new meat substitutes (www.New-Harvest.org). Miyun Park directs the Farm Animals and Sustainable Agriculture program of The Humane Society of the United States, in Washington, D.C. She was previously president of Compassion Over Killing (COK), where she focused on ending cruelty to farmed animals and conducted investigations at slaughterhouses, live animal markets, and factory farms. Miyun’s advo- cacy efforts were featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and CosmoGirl! magazine, and she was the subject of an hour-length documentary produced by the Korean Broadcasting System. Dale Peterson’s recent books include Eating Apes, Chimpanzee Travels, The Deluge and the Ark, and Storyville, USA. He has also co-authored (with Richard Wrangham) Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence and (with Jane Goodall) Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People. Richard D. Ryder studied experimental psychology in animal laboratories at Cambridge University and at Columbia University, New York, before becoming a pioneer animal rights advocate in the 1960s. His Victims of Science provoked political debate when published in 1975 and led to new legislation on animal experimentation in the United Kingdom and the European Union in 1986. He has several times been Chairman of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Council. In 1970 he coined the term “speciesism,” now in many dictionaries. Peter Singer is Ira W. De Camp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He first became well known internationally after the publica- tion of Animal Liberation in 1975. His other books include Democracy and Disobedience, Practical Ethics, How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, Notes on Contributors ix IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM9 Henry Spira and Peter Singer One World, Pushing Time Away, and The President of Good and Evil. He is also editor of four other titles for Blackwell: A Companion to Ethics (1991), A Companion to Bioethics (with Helga Kuhse, 1999), The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature (with Renata Singer, 2005), and Bioethics: An Anthology (with Helga Kuhse, 2nd edn., 2006). He is president of Animal Rights International, and of the Great Ape Project. Henry Spira (1927–98) was a merchant seaman, journalist, civil rights activist, union reformer, and high school teacher before becoming the most effective American campaigner for animals of the 1970s and 1980s. Pelle Strindlund is a Swedish activist and writer. He is the author of Djurrätt och socialism (Animal Rights and Socialism) and I vänliga rebellers sällskap: kristet ickevåld som konfrontation och ömhet (In the Company of Amicable Rebels: Christian Nonviolence as Confrontation and Tenderness). Paul Waldau is the Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Law School, and a Master’s degree from Stanford University in Religious Studies. He is the author of The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals, and has taught “Animal Law” courses at Harvard, Yale, and Boston College law schools. Notes on Contributors x IDOA01 11/5/05, 9:01 AM10 [...]... of a Moral Protest, New York: Free Press Magel, Charles (19 89) Keyguide to Information Sources in Animal Rights, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Nozick, Robert (19 83) “About Mammals and People,” New York Times Book Review, November 27, p 11 Petrinovich, Lewis (19 99) Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 10 IDOA02 10 11 /5/05, 9:00 AM Part I The Ideas IDOC 01 11 11/ 5/05,... 11 /5/05, 9:00 AM Gaverick Matheny 12 IDOC 01 12 11 /5/05, 9:00 AM Utilitarianism and Animals 1 Utilitarianism and Animals Gaverick Matheny In North America and Europe, around 17 billion land animals were raised and killed during 20 01 to feed us Somewhere between 50 and 10 0 million other animals were killed in laboratories, while another 30 million were killed in fur farms The vast majority of these animals. .. lie? When the consequences of not telling the lie are worse than the consequences of telling it To decide otherwise would be to engage in a kind of rule worship at the expense of other people’s interests Because we are often forced to choose 15 IDOC 01 15 11 /5/05, 9:00 AM Gaverick Matheny between the lesser of two evils, any rule about particular actions – lying, promising, killing, and so on – can lead... much weaker version of the principle of equal consideration of interests, there is a compelling ethical case for ceasing to treat animals as means to our ends Marian Dawkins provides the scientific basis for one of the essential premises of Matheny’s – or virtually any – argument about how we should treat animals She shows how scientists can gain insight into what animals feel, and into their capacity... major player in farm animal welfare issues in Europe 1 IDOA02 1 11/ 5/05, 9:00 AM Peter Singer Philosophy got involved in the animal question in the early 19 70s, when three graduate students at Oxford – Roslind and Stanley Godlovitch, together with John Harris – edited Animals, Men and Morals, the first modern work in which philosophers – among others – discuss the ethics of our treatment of animals The... embodied in the “principle of equal consideration of interests”: “Act in such a way that the like interests of everyone affected by your action are given equal weight.” This phrase may lack the elegance of Scripture but conveys the same general idea The principle of equal consideration of interests asks that we put ourselves in the shoes of each person affected by an action and compare the strengths of her... us are interested in good health, a good job, and our friends and family, among other things We could reduce many if not all of these interests to something more general, such as an interest in a happy, pleasurable, relatively painless life I will use the word “interests” to describe whatever it is that we value here – all those things 14 IDOC 01 14 11 /5/05, 9:00 AM Utilitarianism and Animals that matter... the abuse of animals In Britain, campaigns using intimidation have 9 IDOA02 9 11 /5/05, 9:00 AM Peter Singer been credited with preventing the building of a proposed Cambridge University primate research center, and with disrupting the building of a new animal research laboratory at Oxford University Nevertheless, the use of such means undermines the animal movement’s ethical basis In a democratic society,... to the use of violence against any sentient beings, including those who exploit animals Considering the size of the movement, now numbering in the millions, violent incidents have been extremely rare – much more so than in the American anti-abortion movement (often misnamed the “pro-life movement”), some members of which have murdered doctors who carry out abortions Nevertheless, threats of violence... reprinted unchanged Three essays – describing the situation for animals in farms, laboratories, and zoos – are revised versions of essays that appeared in the first edition The remaining fourteen essays appear here for the first time The structure of the book is unchanged We begin with essays on the ideas behind the movement To come to grips with the crux of the ethical 2 IDOA02 2 11 /5/05, 9:00 AM Introduction . In Defense of Animals IDOA 01 11/ 5/05, 9: 01 AM1 IDOA 01 11/ 5/05, 9: 01 AM2 In Defense of Animals The Second Wave Edited by Peter Singer IDOA 01 11/ 5/05, 9: 01 AM3 © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing. Peter Singer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN -13 : 978 -1- 40 51- 1940-5 (hard cover : alk. paper) ISBN -10 : 1- 40 51- 1940-3 (hard cover : alk. paper) ISBN -13 : 978 -1- 40 51- 19 41- 2. Opening Cages, Opening Eyes: An Investigation and Open Rescue at an Egg Factory Farm 17 4 Miyun Park 14 Living and Working in Defense of Animals 18 1 Matt Ball 15 Effective Advocacy: Stealing from the