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

MARCH 14, 2007

Notice that the author is not opposed to the use of nonhuman animals as resources for human consumption. and their bodies dismembered and processed. Here is a New York Times op-ed column about pork production. She simply wants to minimize their suffering before they are killed (painlessly?)

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values. There is another reason that could be given for not eating meat in view of the present inhumane treatment of animals. It would be a way of protesting present practice, a way of saying, “I disagree strongly with the treatment of animals used for food.”

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