Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2008

While many city water departments are aware of the problem, most of them aren't sharing that information with their customers. Pharmaceutically-laced water isn't just a problem for humans. It's a problem for animals, particularly aquatic animals, as well. More information on bottled water is available here.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2008

Some suspicion may arise at this point that the land ethic is ultimately grounded in human interests, not in those of nonhuman natural entities. Objective value inheres in the world outside of subjects and would exist without them; subjective value is conferred by subjects (such as human beings) and would not exist without them.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

As Lukas informs us, a "beefsteak" is a raucous sexist feeding frenzy where 350 (all white) men sit shoulder to shoulder at long tables and gorge themselves on beefsteak soaked in a blood and butter sauce. If you care about animals, refuse to support charities that support animal cruelty.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Her use of the term food “fashion” is appropriate: many people today do not make informed choices about their diet; rather, they are influenced by trends, advertising and the political correctness of food. It’s appalling that anyone would think that a diet based on a dubious morality would build a human infant. Children need protein.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

In fact, they are so intent on reducing information available to consumers that they are lobbying to prevent dairies from labeling their milk as “rBST-free”! Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. I have no idea if rBST is safe. There’s good reason for cynicism.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 15, 2006

People with higher IQs are presumably much more likely than people with lower IQs to possess accurate information as to which behaviors promote health and which behaviors promote disease. Consequently, they realize that all of the suffering and frustration that animals are subjected to in factory farms is entirely unnecessary.

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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. 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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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) Note from KBJ: The expression "all men are created equal" is not an informative; it's a directive. They knew that there are many differences among (respectively) animals and humans. Details here. It doesn't describe; it prescribes. Singer is no fool, and neither was Thomas Jefferson.

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