Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

The lifestyle associated with the Sunday roast involves sacrifices that those brought up on fast food are unused to making—mealtimes, manners, dinner-table conversation and the art of cookery itself. Furthermore, I would suggest not only that it is permissible for those who care about animals to eat meat; they have a duty to do so.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Gale thinks that her study "provides further evidence that people with a higher IQ tend to have a healthier lifestyle." Given that belief, they no doubt also believe that it is wrong to knowingly contribute to unnecessary suffering. Gale's proposed explanation seems quite plausible.

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