Citation
Horta, Oscar (2016) Changing attitudes towards animals in the wild and speciesism. Animal Sentience 7(15)
Commentary Type
Invited Commentary
Thread
Yew-Kwang Ng, How welfare biology and commonsense may help to reduce animal suffering
Abstract
I argue that despite Ng’s claim that we should postpone the defense of those animals that live in the wild, we do have reasons to start spreading concern for them now. We can do it by (i) changing public attitude by heightening awareness of speciesism, by which we will also challenge animal exploitation; and (ii) by disseminating information about the situation of animals in the wild.
DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1109
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