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Area of Science:

  • Animal Ethics
  • Philosophy of Animal Welfare
  • Care Ethics

Background:

  • Nonhuman animals possess emotional capacities for significant caring relationships.
  • These relationships contribute to animal welfare and represent objectively valuable states.
  • Current human practices frequently disrupt, manipulate, or instrumentalize animal care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To argue that animal caring relationships possess objective value.
  • To critique narrow welfare conceptions that overlook non-experiential harms.
  • To advocate for an ethical framework extending beyond welfare in human-animal interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Drawing from principles of care ethics.
  • Analyzing the impact of human practices (farming, research, etc.) on animal care.
  • Critically evaluating existing welfare perspectives.

Main Results:

  • Human interference with animal care is widespread across various domains.
  • Narrow welfare perspectives often fail to recognize harms from disrupting animal care.
  • Instrumentalization of care can be overlooked or condoned by welfare-focused approaches.

Conclusions:

  • Animal caring relationships have inherent, objective value.
  • An expanded ethical perspective is necessary to address harms to caring animals.
  • Moving beyond a welfare-only approach is crucial for ethical human-animal interactions.