Critter News

MAY 9, 2009

For instance, they caution that if "we're at a restaurant and there's a veggie burger on the menu but we give the server the third degree about the ingredients or about how it was cooked, we're most likely doing more harm than good." They even go so far as to insist that it can be a good thing for vegetarians to date meat-eaters!

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Animal Rights Rights Vegetarian PETA 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Recommendations included: know the people who produced your food, get out of the supermarket (go to a farmer's market), and cook at home more (especially junk food, as if you had to make your own french fries you'd eat a lot fewer of them). You wouldn't expect Pollan or Oprah to deliver a vegan or animal rights message and they didn't.

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Vegan Cooking Chickens Cows 100

Animal Person

JUNE 12, 2010

Bad guys treat humans the way they'd treat animals. They corral them, lock them up, and take them out to kill, cook and eat them as needed. Even the good guys sometimes treat people the way they'd treat animals. Tags: Ethics Film Language " animal rights "The Road movie review. They hunt them down in "the wild."

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Humane Killing Cooking Dogs 100

Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Our clubhouse is a large house, complete with a kitchen made for entertaining and I'm going to survey the neighborhood for interest in a vegan cooking class. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights BBQ petting zoo pony rides veganism. That's what happens when people don't participate.

Zoos 100

Zoos Ponies Pets Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Human ingenuity is great, and undoubtedly a skilful vegetarian cook can come up with quite a panoply of delicious dishes. Jan Narveson , "Animal Rights," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7 [March 1977]: 161-78, at 173-4 [italics in original])

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Vegetarian Morals Vegetarian Cooking Slaughter 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

By abusing evolutionary biology in this way, we are able to read back the sophisticated conduct of people into the animal behavior that prefigures it. But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands.

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Animal Morals Apes Emotional 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40