Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

Example: A reference to "still undemocratic Iraq" makes the assertion that eventually Iraq will be democratic. Using the human-appropriate relative pronoun "who" to refer to an animal is a planted assertion that animals should be considered in the same way that humans are considered.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Either the vegetarian argues on utilitarian premises, or he tries to supplement or replace his utilitarianism with some plausible non-utilitarian principles implying the wrongfulness of rearing and killing animals for food. Devine seems to think that if humans cease eating meat, they will derive no pleasure from eating.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

A serious concern for the suffering and interests of animals, then, as expressed through vegetarianism, which, after all, is effectively nothing more than the boycott of meat, directly affects factory farming, the immediate source of so much of this suffering. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. The reason that the industry is losing the argument is quite simple: There is no ethical justification for causing an animal to suffer unnecessarily.

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