Editing Pet (section)

==Ethics==
Some scholars, [[ethicists]], and [[animal rights organizations]] have raised concerns over keeping pets because of the lack of autonomy and the objectification of non-human animals.<ref>{{cite news |last= McRobbie|first=Linda Rodriguez|date=1 August 2017|title=Should we stop keeping pets? Why more and more ethicists say yes|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/01/should-we-stop-keeping-pets-why-more-and-more-ethicists-say-yes|work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=3 August 2017}}</ref> By contrast, Ikechukwu Monday Osebor writing in the Aquino Journal from the [[University of Nigeria]] argues from a [[consequentialist]] perspective that pet ownership can be ethical.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Osebor |first1=Ikechukwu Monday |title=IS PET-KEEPING A VIOLATION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS? A CONSEQUENTIALIST STANDPOINT |journal=Aquino |date=2023 |volume=3 |issue=2 |url=https://acjol.org/index.php/aquino/article/view/4243 |access-date=2025-01-17}}</ref> Gary Francione and Anna Charlton argue that pet breeding and ownership are unethical because they view it as treating animals as property and commodifying them.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Francionce |first1=Gary |title=The case against pets |url=https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical |website=Aeon}}</ref> Further concerns arise from [[vegan]] and [[vegetarian]] perspectives with the fact that some pets require the consumption of meat and thus keeping pets may be unethical.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}