MARC BEKOFF: ‘The use of animals is a contentious issue, but the ethical orientations that people draw on when evaluating different forms of animal use are not yet well understood. In light of this, the paper presents a questionnaire-based measure of four animal ethics orientations: animal rights, anthropocentrism, animal protection, and lay utilitarianism. I found this study to be of great interest and asked the authors if they could answer a few questions about their research, and gladly they said “Yes.” The interview went as follows’. SOURCE…
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