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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. 26, 2011 To the Editor: Seamus McGraw mounts all the standard defenses: I am feeding my family; there are too many deer; I kill as mercifully as possible. Hunters like him. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

Suppose there is a man who wishes to end his life but regrets never having given his poor and hungry family any pleasure. The members of his family have no objections; on the contrary, they rather relish the idea. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) Suppose some of them say yes (in American sign language).

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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. Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason.

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Philip E. Devine on Demi-Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Or one might distinguish according to the kinds of value which may justify the eating of meat: turkey dinners on holidays with the family might be thought legitimate, while a bachelor cooking for himself would be under an obligation to abstain from meat. Philip E.