Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2008

Philosophers are trained to do this. If I can show you that one of your moral principles entails that it's wrong to eat meat, then, to avoid contradiction, you must either abandon the principle or abstain from meat. The answer is that not everyone has thought through the implications of his or her values.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And they were, before they stopped their train of thought prior to it reaching its most important station. To treat animals fairly, he needs to treat his workers fairly." And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. Not eating them.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 13, 2008

I especially liked your posting from Gardner Williams’ “The Moral Insignificance of the Total of All Value.” It’s a job-matching site for all jobs related to animals, like training, grooming, veterinary medicine, caretaking, zoo positions, and much, much more.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work. Why should we euthanize Clayton and start over?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. The ability to feel pain is not an obviously plausible way of morally distinguishing microorganisms from other organisms. What Meat Should Not Be Eaten?

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