Bioethics

Anthropocentric: benefits humans (humans are most important)

Ecocentric: places value on the entire environment and all life in it

Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare: Focuses on quality of life 

Animal Rights: no animals should be used by humans for any reasons 

Leopold’s Ethical Community 

• “The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land”

• Preserving integrity and stability of land is important 

• a thing is right when it tends to preserve integrity, stability, and the beauty of the biotic community

• Conclusion: we should do things that preserve that integrity, beauty, stability… not do other things that hurt it