Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I worked in ethics. Years later, after he had gone off to teach at Northern Illinois University and I had gone off to teach at the University of Texas at Arlington, we discovered that we had a shared interest in animal rights. Mylan worked in epistemology.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 28, 2007

Jean and I overlapped by one year: August 1987 (when she arrived in Tucson) to August 1988 (when I departed for College Station, Texas). Here is a blog by one of my fellow graduate students at the University of Arizona. (I I will add it to the blogroll.) Jean teaches philosophy just down the road from me at Southern Methodist University.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 27, 2007

In the Shepherd ads, the setting is again Texas or someplace in the west. In the Garner ads, he talks about eating “real food” rather than vegetables and other fare, then sits back with a large, juicy steak. Music plays in the background.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth). Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. By the way, one answers questions and solves problems. One does not answer problems. Our duties to them, he argued, are actually duties to particular human beings.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Chantelle Wallace Austin, Texas The irony of this article, which is reminiscent of Irish author Jonathan Swift's suggestion of eating "excess children" to shock and awe his readers, isn't lost on an intelligent reader. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

McWilliams is Associate Professor of History at Texas State University at San Marcos and a recent fellow in the agrarian studies program at Yale University. Menu suggestions and recipes for a cruelty-free, planet-friendly Thanksgiving feast are available here. About the Washington Post columnist: James E. He is the author of Just Food.

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