The preprint of my latest paper, written with animal welfare scientist Sara Hintze, is available on Philpapers. In it we argue that proponents of the disenhancement of farmed animals to eliminate their capacity to suffer have missed out something key: negative affects are fundamental for a good life. Wait, what? @philosophy #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare https://philpapers.org/rec/MONFTO
Susana Monsó & Sara Hintze, For their own good? The unseen harms of disenhancing farmed animals - PhilPapers
In recent years, some ethicists have defended that we should genetically engineer farmed animals to diminish or eliminate their capacity to experience negative affective states, a process known as disenhancement that ...