Ben Bradley's "Is Death Bad for a Cow" persuasively argues that death is bad for cows. Bradley uses a general and intuitive deprivation theory of the badness of death to establish that death is bad for cows. The basic idea is that death is bad for the individual who dies just in case death cuts short and deprives this individual of the goodness she would have had were she not to have died. And surely death can deprive cows of such goodness; death can adversely affect the lifetime well-being of cows.

Some challenge Bradley's deprivation view. One such strategy is to claim that Bradley's account of the badness of death is too general. Others claim that cows don't have lifetime well-being levels. Bradley develops convincing counterarguments against both sets of challenges. If you are interested in learning more about Bradley's Cow Argument and his counterarguments to objections, please have a listen. Thank you for listening!