text: John Hadley & Siobhan O'Sullivan, World Poverty, Animal Minds and the Ethics of Veterinary Expenditure - PhilPapers
  John Hadley & Siobhan O'Sullivan
  Environmental Values 18 (3):361-378 (2009)
  In this paper we make an argument for limiting veterinary expenditure on companion animals. The argument combines two principles: the obligation to give and the self-consciousness requirement. In line with the former, we ought to give money to organisations helping to alleviate preventable suffering and death in developing countries; the latter states that it is only intrinsically wrong to painlessly kill an individual that is self-conscious. Combined, the two principles inform an argument along the following lines: rather than spending inordinate amounts of money on veterinary care when a companion animal is sick or injured, it is better to give the money to an aid organisation and painlessly kill the animal.
  DOI 10.3197/096327109x12474739376578
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