Friday, October 24, 2025

Assignment #4: Animals in Captivity

1. Read Chapter 5, Gruen.

Supplemental: 

a. Francione, "Why Keeping a Pet is Fundamentally Unethical"

https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical

Update; here's a view (somewhat) critical of Francione's:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26813156

b. Video on pet ownership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwG1BHdHIk

c. Acampora, "Zoos and Eyes"

d. "Vegan Food for Animals."

 https://www.animal-ethics.org/defending-animals/veganism/vegan-food-for-animals/

e. "Should Vegans have Vegan Dogs and Cats?"

https://freefromharm.org/common-justifications-for-eating-animals/vegan-dogs-and-cats/

f. Engel, "Fishy Reasoning..."

https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol23/iss1/3/

g. Squadrito, "The Tropical Fish Hobby..."

https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol3/iss3/9/