Josh Milburn
I am a philosopher interested in animals, food, and politics. I am presently a Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University.
Before coming to Loughborough, I was a British Academy Postdocotral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield (2019-2022); an Associate Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of Politics at the University of York (2017-2019); and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (2016-17).
From 2013-2016, I read for a PhD in philosophy in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. Prior to starting at Queen's University Belfast, I completed a BA and an MA in philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University.
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Supervisors: Will Kymlicka, Alasdair Cochrane, David Archard, and Jeremy Watkins
Before coming to Loughborough, I was a British Academy Postdocotral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield (2019-2022); an Associate Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of Politics at the University of York (2017-2019); and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Studies in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (2016-17).
From 2013-2016, I read for a PhD in philosophy in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. Prior to starting at Queen's University Belfast, I completed a BA and an MA in philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University.
For more information, visit my website: https://josh-milburn.com/
Supervisors: Will Kymlicka, Alasdair Cochrane, David Archard, and Jeremy Watkins
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Asking questions beyond what humans should eat and whether to count animals as food, Just Fodder answers ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters. Josh Milburn begins with practical dilemmas about feeding the animals closest to us, our pets or animal companions. The questions grow more complicated as he considers relationships with more distance - questions about whether and how to feed garden birds, farmland animals who would eat our crops, and wild animals. Milburn evaluates the nature and circumstances of our relationships with animals to generate a novel theory of animal rights.
Looking past arguments about what we can and cannot do to other beings, Just Fodder asks what we can, should, and must do for them, laying out a fuller range of our ethical obligations to other animals.
Journal articles by Josh Milburn
Asking questions beyond what humans should eat and whether to count animals as food, Just Fodder answers ethical and political questions arising from thinking about animals as eaters. Josh Milburn begins with practical dilemmas about feeding the animals closest to us, our pets or animal companions. The questions grow more complicated as he considers relationships with more distance - questions about whether and how to feed garden birds, farmland animals who would eat our crops, and wild animals. Milburn evaluates the nature and circumstances of our relationships with animals to generate a novel theory of animal rights.
Looking past arguments about what we can and cannot do to other beings, Just Fodder asks what we can, should, and must do for them, laying out a fuller range of our ethical obligations to other animals.
This chapter is a republished version of a paper available open access in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics and Ethics, Policy, and Environment.
• Possible alternatives to 'slaughter-based' pet foods include pet foods based on cultivated meat or insects, or vegan pet foods. Since these do not rely on animal agriculture, they may be significantly less environmentally damaging.
• Vegan pet foods have limited uptake among guardians of dogs and cats, who worry that vegan pet foods may be 'unnatural' or unhealthy. Meanwhile, critics charge guardians of animals fed vegan diets with forcing their ideologies on animals.
• Recent research suggests that vegan pet foods are just as palatable, and at least as healthy, for dogs and cats as slaughter-based pet foods.
• Quantifications of pet food's impact show that switching dogs and cats to vegan diets globally would drastically reduce the number of animals farmed, and thus the greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and freshwater use of animal agriculture.
radically destructive of the environment, of animals, and of humans.
Volume 21, Issue 1 (2018) Tom Regan: In Memoriam
Articles
Reflections on Tom Regan and the Animal Rights Movement That Once Was
Gary L. Francione
"Subjects-of-a-Life," Entelechy, and Intrinsic Teleology
Josephine Donovan
Nozick’s Libertarian Critique of Regan
Josh Milburn
Harming (Respectfully) Some to Benefit Others: Animal Rights and the Moral Imperative of Trap-Neuter-Release Programs
Cheryl E. Abbate
Chasing Secretariat's Consent: The Impossibility of Permissible Animal Sports
James Rocha
We Are All Noah: Tom Regan's Olive Branch to Religious Animal Ethics
Matthew C. Halteman
Demystifying Animal Rights
Mylan Engel Jr.
Xenotransplantation, Subsistence Hunting and the Pursuit of Health: Lessons for Animal Rights-Based Vegan Advocacy
Nathan M. Nobis
Animal Rights and Incredulous Stares
Bob Fischer
Tom Regan: A Visionary Changing the World
Carolyn Bailey
Evidence of Sexism and Male Privilege in the Animal Liberation/Rights Movement
Lisa Kemmerer
Book Review
Review of Nathan Nobis's Animals & Ethics 101
Bob Fischer