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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Farmer writes about the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, where kids 5 to 11-years old are taught cooking in a place "that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure." Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? But I bet anything doesn't go. fun" said one (female) child. One is male.

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On Talking With Veterinarians About Vegan Food

Animal Person

Home cooking for Violet was difficult because her carb/protein/fat ratios need to be consistent in order for her blood sugar to be predictable. He fares best (as evidenced by poop, energy, licking, scratching, and severity of limping) on food with no grains whatsoever and very high animal protein--almost carnivore level.

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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

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You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals. Is cooking food "natural"? You're hypocrites essentially, and the worst kind in my opinion. Loud preaching hypocrites utterly convinced of their infallability. Is marinating flesh "natural"?

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Wild Thing

Animal Ethics

Look at all the animals you can kill, butcher, cook, and eat in one city. It makes me want to go out and slaughter a gopher.

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Human ingenuity is great, and undoubtedly a skilful vegetarian cook can come up with quite a panoply of delicious dishes. How do we know but what, once we got used to a vegetarian diet, we would find that our pleasure is scarcely diminished at all? In present circumstances, the following would seem to be indicated.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered. It is estimated that the amount of grain fed to cattle and hogs in the United States in 1971 was twice that of U.S.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

And it certainly doesn't follow that it is permissible to eat meat that comes from animals who were forced to endure horribly inhumane factory farm conditions and who were then slaughtered inhumanely. As I have noted elsewhere, with minimal effort, people can learn to cook delicious vegetarian meals. Running time: 12 Minutes.