Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. We're simply asking you for just a couple of hour to help greyhounds in serious trouble right now. Need reminding why cruelty to animals is wrong?

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Animal Rights Rights Ireland 100

Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Words like 'pastured,' 'grass-fed,' and 'free-range' are now synonymous with quality meat; they carry a potent if symbolic meaning that has eased many a consumer’s conscience and driven many a marketing campaign." The chef's perspective is represented by Dan Barber, who serves Eggleston's meat. Potent if symbolic? It is murder.

Slaughter 100

Slaughter Slaughtered Cows Meat 100

Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Finally, in my e-mailbox this morning, and probably in yours, was the Care2 newsletter, including a link to a column about a restaurant in Arizona that will soon serve burgers made from lion meat. But I don't feel like I was presented with a compelling argument for not eating lions. Or even by a weak argument about near extinction.

Lions 100

Lions Animal Cruelty Cruelty Chickens 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). What do you think?

Psychology 100

Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Consequently, one ought not to eat meat until actual practice is changed. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. The question that must be raised, however, is how the conclusion not to eat meat follows from this. milk production.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 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. Does it follow that because grain that could be used to feed hungry people is used to feed cattle, people should not eat the meat produced by feeding these cattle grain?

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

For we must realize that the question is whether this justifies the eating of animals in comparison with alternatives. And there are two relevant kinds of alternatives here: one is treating the animals better before we eat them, the only disadvantage of which is that it would make meat considerably more expensive.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Vegetarian Cooking Slaughter 40