Wild animal suffering
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Wild animal suffering (WAS) is a term usually used to describe suffering that happens due to natural processes, although the term could also be used for (“unnantural”) instances of wild animal suffering, such as when wild animals suffer due to human activity.
The issue has recently received much focus from academics, but is only currently starting to grow in blah activism (cite EAA)
Notable proponents
John Stewart Mill
In 1874 John Stewart Mill blah blah "On Nature":
"In sober truth, nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to one another, are nature's every day performances. [..] The phrases which ascribe perfection to the course of nature can only be considered as the exaggerations of poetic or devotional feeling, not intended to stand the test of a sober examination. No one, either religious or irreligious, believes that the hurtful agencies of nature, considered as a whole, promote good purposes, in any other way than by inciting human rational creatures to rise up and struggle against them."
Yew-Kwang Ng
In 1995 economist Yew-Kwang Ng published a paper entitled "Towards welfare biology: Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering". In his paper Ng argues blah...
David Pearce
Blah
Brian Tomasik
In 2009 Brian Tomasik .... essays.... He also research, no. wild animals, etc etc more.
Dr. Oscar Horta
Mac Mahan
Ny times
(check oscar’s list)