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Wild Thing

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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

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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

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Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. As I have noted elsewhere, with minimal effort, people can learn to cook delicious vegetarian meals. Running time: 12 Minutes.