1. Suffering
Because of its emphasis on the prevention of animal suffering, some environmental philosophers criticize Singer as, at best, falling short of the appreciation of predation that any adequate environmental ethics must exhibit. Gary Constock has expressed this point well: " Even a philosopher could observe, given a little experience, that the interests, drives, needs, purposes, wants and desires of animals differ according to their genetic make up and social conditioning. . . .As a little observation would show, starving deer in the woods have great interest in finding food, but little interest i...
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