Sentences with phrase «value of individual animals»

The first is the moral value of individual animals.

Examining the conservationist fervor to kill feral cats as an expression of their «unarticulated moral norms,» Linn found that «This worldview suffers from a number of blind spots,» beginning with failure to recognize «the moral value of individual animals,» now almost universally accepted worldwide and recognized by the existence of anti-cruelty laws.

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The wellbeing of individual animals is a function of the health of the ecosystem, and the ecosystem has value in and through the myriads of individuals that make it up.

Value is located finally in the individual occasion, in this case, most significantly, in the individual occasion of animal experience.

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.

Unfortunately, there are some individuals who fail to see the value of our companion animals, resulting in animal abuse, cruelty and neglect, which occur far too often.

Specifically, the charitable deduction allows individual taxpayers and corporations to deduct from their taxable income in a given year the present value of contributions they make to nonprofit groups that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific, or literary in purpose, or that work to prevent cruelty to children or animals.

The main features in this issue of Animal Sheltering — on the need to see shelter dogs as individuals, the utility of transport programs and the value of building strong relationships with donors — all speak to the humane movement's sweeping progress in making our shelters and rescues successful in finding homes for healthy and adoptable animals.

Mourning occurs in response to an individual's own terminal illness or to the death of a valued being, human or animal.

An individual, committed to the humane treatment of cats, inspires others in his community to challenge municipal animal control laws to reflect their values.

Interaction encourages communication, reduces feelings of isolation and stress and gives the individuals a sense of importance and value in a way that, perhaps only an animal can accomplish.

The program promotes the value of animals in our community through bringing joy and happiness to individuals residing in hospitals, retirement residences, shelters and other long - term care facilities through volunteer and companion animal interactions.

HF 1581 / SF 1374: Gross overlimit penalty and license revocation doesn't apply to threatened or endangered animals unless more than one is taken, possessed, or transported; individuals can't obtain game or fish license for ten years after violations involving animals with restitution value of $ 2,000 or more.

The issue then becomes one of deciding whether the value of ideological purity surrounding the inviolability of animal rights, or of the biological interests of the individual whale, forecloses the pursuit of a policy with the potential to reduce these harms in the aggregate but not end them entirely.