Sentences with phrase «of whether an animal»

Begging the question of whether an animal has a right to life in the face of a «necessity» that is neither economically nor medically established, it can most surely be argued that if an animal's destiny is to be slaughtered, this should be carried out with some respect for the creature.

Boiled alive and torn limb from limb — it's time we took seriously the question of whether animals like squid, octopus and lobsters suffer

Gracer wants people to move away from getting their protein from traditional livestock such as cows, pigs, and chickens because raising livestock has a huge negative impact on the environment, regardless of whether the animals belong to subsistence farmers in developing countries or a Western industrial conglomerate.

And even if we can make this work, there's still the potential problem of whether animals with altered DNA can be safely controlled.

It is carefully — even beautifully — done, but I think this question of whether animals can and do have cumulative culture is still open,» says Claudio Tennie, a comparative psychologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany who was not involved with the work.

Both are a step towards attempting the famous test of whether an animal truly understands that the face they see in a mirror is their own.

Data from the study indicate that stressed animals» intestines remain leaky regardless of whether the animals receive probiotics, he notes.

If someone has injured or killed your animal, you may be entitled to damages, regardless of whether the animal was injured or killed intentionally or accidentally, as long as the conduct is determined to be negligent.

Regardless of whether the animal is an ESA or the dog is a service dog, standards of appropriate behavior apply to these animals.

A few years ago, Charleston Animal Society, along with the majority of animal organizations across the country, adopted the Five Freedoms as its guiding principles in the humane treatment of animals, regardless of whether the animal is a pet, a working animal or one to be slaughtered for consumption.

PETA's lawyer said a hearing held in the case this week was a «historic day» as it was the «the first time a court considered the question of whether animals can be enslaved,» U-T San Diego reports (via How Appealing).

In animal studies, social «support» is assessed in terms of whether an animal is socially isolated and housed alone or whether it has cagemates.

Not exact matches

When preparing to take a photo, the Mate 10 Pro uses artificial intelligence to identify whether it is taking a picture of a person, food, text, animals, or a portrait, and then adjusts the camera's settings to take the best picture of that particular subject.

Subscribers to a magazine or newspaper expect a certain perspective and subject matter; families look forward to taking their kids to see the new Pixar movie, regardless of whether it's about animals, toys or cars.

Despite the complex rules, there are plenty of factors that affect food quality that aren't addressed by kosher laws — like whether an animal ate organic feed or a steady diet of garbage before it was butchered.

The animal - welfare standards, along with the company's sustainable - seafood policy (it sells no fish at low levels of abundance), Responsibly Grown ratings, and decision to become the first national grocery chain to label whether products contain genetically modified organisms, all show a bit of Mackey's libertarian streak.

«The question is going to be, with the animal spirits having sort of disappeared here and the classic risk taking mode, whether we're going to continue to see this gapping around, which I think will look more like recent sequential quarters than it would like the healthy first quarter we saw last year,» he said.

I always feel like there's something else out there that's telling you — whether it's animal instincts or whether it's just maybe a heightened form of common sense — I really learned to listen to myself, and to not be scared to speak up as well.

As for Elanco, it turned in less - than - stellar performance in the third quarter of last year, reviving questions about whether Lilly might spin off what has long been a leading player in animal health.

For instance, this research could help determine whether it's better to emphasize animal welfare, sustainability, or the health benefits of clean meat (e.g., the lack of antibiotics or bacterial contamination).»

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.

Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air...»

It is unclear whether Mark has in mind the pre-fall state of Adam when wild animals were as yet no threat or the post-fall state in which wild animals were a danger to the expelled Adam.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

Nevertheless, I would like to raise the question whether Whitehead is not after all guilty of emphasizing and generalizing some factor that may indeed be peculiar to man and the higher animals, at the expense of another factor which could offer more genuine grounds for generalization.

If Jesus and his father Joseph were carpenters (whether we understand that in the traditional sense of working with wood, or as Ray Vander Laan and others suggest, stone masons who perhaps helped build the Roman administrative city of Sepphoris), were they paid with animals and produce or with silver?

We need not take a stand here on the problem whether some rudiments of mind, or self - awareness, or conscious mental activity, are present in animals other than man.

From Hart, we ask whether he does mean by his arguments that particular animals will return to life, perhaps insofar as they are integrally connected to the identity of particular humans.

Nevertheless, Mr. Bottum is right about the symbolic power of sacrifice, whether human or animal, to sustain a culture.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gWhether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gwhether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

It is possible to inquire whether what the human parents biologically contribute in the genesis of the human being could not, certain conditions being assumed, be brought about outside a human organism, in an animal one.

One may then generalize this intuition and, employing the criterion of «active singularity,» further argue by analogy that whatever is experienced to act as one must also feel as one, whether this be an animal or a cell, a molecule or an atom (1970a, 36, 143f.

Animals can respond to a spiritual presence, too, whether showing fright in the presence of evil, or becoming docile and peaceful in the presence of holiness.

The question of whether such structures exist and what they are is always an empirical question, but whatever they may be, in their transcendence of what man shares with the animal they may be thought of as part of human nature.

First, when the wildlife managers speak of surplus animals they mean those animals that will die whether or not they are trapped.

Whether or not we regard animals as subjects with feelings akin to our own depends also upon our general vision of the world.

Christians should ask a third question namely, whether the rise in the status of pets to family member, as denoted by the term «companion animal», is an appropriate attitude for a Biblical Christian.

God could had it been both ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

God could had creation either ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

His job is to focus on the task at hand, whether exploring «Abortion in Halakhic Literature,» «The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories,» «Teaching Torah to Non-Jews,» «Animal Experimentation,» or «Mental Incompetence and Its Implications in Jewish Law» — sample titles from the three volumes of Contemporary Halakhic Problems.

The question is instead whether evolutionary theory has been correct in excluding animal purpose altogether from the explanation of biological evolution generally.

With animals and men it also depends to a large extent on the experimental situation — the contingencies of the environment — whether their mentalistic or mechanical aspect will dominate.

Without taking a strong stand on the controversial question of whether inter-species relationships ought to be governed by justice — in other words, the question of whether we owe anything to animals as such — the author establishes all sorts of interesting parallels between evolutionary biology and traditional theology in this area, as well as challenges from one to the other.

Whether that conversation played a part or not, Root is today among the signers to Every Living Thing and has even chronicled Lewis on animals for the Humane Society of the United States with no hint of an eye - roll.

At this point it is essential to make a categorical distinction between (a) the fixed rules, and (b) the flexible strategies which between them control all organised activities of animal and man, regardless whether we consider instinctive behaviour, sensory - motor skills, or creative problem solving.

It is in the light of this distinction between freedom and determinism that we can reassess the above examples of characteristically human and characteristically animal behaviour to determine whether animals have these two orders of being within their individual identities.

Darwin himself felt some doubts on this score, writing in old age to a friend that» «with me the horrid doubt arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or are trustworthy.»»

But the question relevant to theodicy concerns theological determinism, which is whether God fully determines the behavior of physical processes, including the behavior of animals.

The writer seems to be saying that animal life, whether on land or in the sea, is more marvelous than mere plant life, and, although issuing from the womb of the earth and from the waters, required a special operation of God to bring it about.