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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: In ā€œ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ā€ (Op-Ed, Dec. He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Iā€™m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

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. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.