Is it morally right to kill animals? Utilitarian, Deontological and Virtue-based perspectives

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: B+, Education University of Hong Kong, course: PFS4030 Honours Project II, language: English, abstract: This essay sums up the discussion on killing animals, list six different views on the topic and find the best view out of them, and supplement the loophole of that view with the help of other views.

Animal rights has long been a controversial issue in the human world as the human culture holds a lot of activities that involve the killing of animals, such as meat eating and foxhunting. There are both animal-friendly views and animal-unfriendly views in the three main stems of ethics: utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics.