As an elephant is shot dead in Zimbabwe last month, in an echo of the Cecil the Lion killing, we look at the ethics behind the treatment of animals…
Animal ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for consumption. And now, a German hunter has paid a vast amount of money to shoot one of the largest elephants ever seen in Zimbabwe for his own pleasure, causing animal rights activists to express their outrage merely three months after the shooting of Cecil the Lion. Tony Miligan’s essential introduction, Animal Ethics: The Basics