{"id":132851,"date":"2019-05-20T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=132851"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:18:22","slug":"animal-matters-episode-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/05\/animal-matters-episode-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Matters: Episode 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>What Are the Philosophical Premises for Why Animal Life Has No Value or Is of Less Worth?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s third episode examines the underlying philosophical and ethical precepts governing how we think about animals and the value of their lives. What ethical or intellectual justifications exist for treating the lives of animals as inherently inferior to human life and thus justifiably exploited and extinguished for human benefit? Should the animal rights movement devote itself to incremental improvements in the welfare of animals, to reduce their suffering on their way to the slaughterhouse, or insist upon a principled consensus that animal life is inherently valuable and thus cannot be viewed as less worthy?<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xwrrtEiLXrU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are the Philosophical Premises for Why Animal Life Has No Value or Is of Less Worth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[786,619,120,840,857,831,991,126],"class_list":["post-132851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-animal-justice","tag-animal-rights","tag-conflict","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-veganism","tag-vegetarianism","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}