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AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS Animal ethics is concerned with the moral issues concerning animals. Environmental ethics concerns itself
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AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS Animal ethics is concerned with the moral issues concerning animals. Environmental ethics concerns itself with the moral issues of the environment. The existence of animal ethics depends on the existence of environmental ethics. Philosophers, such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan and Carl Cohen have an individualistic approach on the subject of animal rights and moral ethics. They are limited to animal concerns without considering the environment as a whole. They also deal with individual rights as opposed to collective rights. Individualists are concerned with the rights of the individual as opposed to the rights of a majority. Each philosopher has his own individualistic approach to the question of whether or not animals have rights. Writing in the Guardian, Peter Singer, a leading figure in the animal rights movement, describes the confrontation between animal rights activists and researchers experimenting on animals: "This situation has arisen, in part,...
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