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Brute Ethics is a primer and encyclopedia about animal ethics - understanding animal-human issues through knowledge and reasoning and acting for the moral good. Animal ethic encompasses animal rights, animal welfare, nature conservation and applied ethics. It should appeal to you if you have an inquiring mind and especially if you have an interest in animal life. When we interact with animals are we doing right or wrong, good or bad? Everyone makes unavoidable daily moral decisions about animals - whether eating them, using them in soap or feeding them to pets. Our best actions spring from understanding and good reasoning. Therefore we should be knowledgeable about what we and humanity are doing, question critically and then act. Click here to start exploring animal ethics. You are welcome to quote short extracts but please give an acknowledgement and a link to Brute Ethics. Animal Rights Looking for animal rights? Animal rights is part of the wider subject of animal ethics. For a comparison see Animal Rights vs Animal Ethics. Wolf Trust Promoting a reintroduction of wolves to Britain - a unique animal-human ethical and conservation issue. ~ Brute Ethics Motto ~ The greatest threat to people is ignorance. The greatest threat to animals is ignorant people.

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