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41Beyond Welfare: Animal Integrity, Animal Dignity, and Genetic EngineeringEthics and the Environment 9 (1): 94-120. 2004.Bernard Rollin argues that it is permissible to change an animal's telos through genetic engineering, if it doesn't harm the animal's welfare. Recent attempts to undermine his argument rely either on the claim that diminishing certain capacities always harms an animal's welfare or on the claim that it always violates an animal's integrity. I argue that these fail. However, respect for animal dignity provides a defeasible reason not to engineer an animal in a way that inhibits the development of …Read more
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