Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

But the ease with which we can tell our stories and post our videos must not render us incapable of moral judgment and decency. And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? When is violence toward an animal in a video gratuitous?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Peter Singer more broadly examines the moral standing of animals here.) How much do you want to bet that Randy Cohen eats cows and pigs? This passage puzzles me: Unsurprisingly, I believe it is wrong to inflict pain and death unnecessarily on a creature capable of suffering. Why does this belief not "compel us to be vegetarians"?

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged. What made me cringe was that everyone had to be "ready" before making a change that the planet needs so desperately.

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Lifestyle Vegan Vegetarian New York Times 100

Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! I mean, where do they get their morals from? There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated. Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

That depends on whether there are morally relevant differences between chickens and fish on the one hand and cows, pigs, and sheep on the other. (I Surely that counts for something, morally. Does that mean he was not expressing profound moral truths? Human beings are, and always will be, imperfect, morally and otherwise.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. Foer misses the point of the debate completely. A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. Of all the ways of influencing behavior, rational persuasion is the most effective, the most secure (in the sense of long-lasting), and the most defensible from a moral point of view.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. .&# And then you seem to have no tolerance of a voice that that has a different viewpoint. It is OK for people to like to hunt. This proposed hunting season will clearly not impact the eastern population of sandhill cranes.

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