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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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It's Back! The Horror of Horse Slaughter in DeKalb

Animal Ethics

Think of your favorite horror film: A brutal ruthless killer is on the loose, slashing hapless innocent victims to death right and left. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S.

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Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!

Animal Ethics

Eat right. What counts as eating right? Since the New Year's resolutions you have made for 2007 are your resolutions, I assume that you would actually like to succeed in keeping them. Switching to a vegan diet devoid of meat and animal products also almost always results in significantly lower plasma cholesterol levels.

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