Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

In today's Dot Earth post " Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too? ," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. Every day, some people switch from meat-based diets to vegetarian diets.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. 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.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Meat eating as implied by the foregoing remarks may be more ecologically responsible than a wholly vegetable diet. It has everything to do with "the quantity of pain that these unfortunate beings experience."

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. Why wouldn’t they?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. The healthiest diets of all, however, go a step further, and get their nutrients from beans, grains, vegetables, and fruits rather than from meats. What about other animal products such as dairy products?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

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.

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