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Mylan

Animal 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. I worked in ethics. I consider Mylan's essay " The Immorality of Eating Meat " the best thing I've read on the topic.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

But is it true that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent to the cruel treatment of animals? If I visit Arlington Cemetery, do I give my tacit consent to the various wars that produced the graves? But so could lots of other things: wearing an animal rights button, picketing meat-packing houses, and so on.