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Issues of Animal Life and Death

Natural Moral Law and Animals

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Overview

Recall questions on why using animals for food is permitted and on applying double effect to intensive farming.

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Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Process

How do natural moral law, situation ethics and virtue ethics approach using animals as food?

Key term

When applying the principle of double effect to intensive farming, what is identified as the good effect being sought?

Key term

What proportionality assessment must be made when applying double effect to intensive farming?

Process

Apply double effect to animal suffering in food production.

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    According to natural moral law, why is it permissible to use animals as food?

    Model answer

    Animals exist in a natural hierarchy below humans and may be used for human sustenance because this accords with the natural order and promotes human flourishing.

  2. 2

    When applying the principle of double effect to intensive farming, what is identified as the good effect being sought?

    Model answer

    Food production for human sustenance.

  3. 3

    In the double effect analysis of intensive farming, what is identified as the bad effect?

    Model answer

    Animal suffering.

  4. 4

    When applying double effect to intensive farming, what question must be asked about the relationship between the bad effect and the agent's intention?

    Model answer

    Whether the animal suffering is directly intended or merely foreseen as a side effect of food production.

  5. 5

    What proportionality assessment must be made when applying double effect to intensive farming?

    Model answer

    Whether the good effect (food production) is proportionate to the bad effect (animal suffering).

  6. 6

    Explain why natural moral law might permit intensive farming despite animal suffering.

    Model answer

    If the suffering is merely foreseen rather than intended, the action of food production is not intrinsically wrong, and the good of feeding humans is proportionate to the harm, then double effect may justify the practice.

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