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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 5 of 13

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For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. ARGUMENTS FOR MORAL VEGETARIANISM A variety of arguments have been given for vegetarianism. I outline two arguments of this sort in what follows in order to illustrate some of the difficulties in evaluating moral vegetarianism.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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You can buy some extra time by presoaking the animal in a basin of ice water.)" The tiresome Hitler was a well-known vegetarian comment is included in this segment, but I found it irksome long before that. Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals.

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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys

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Here is a New York Times story about a vegetarian restaurant in (of all places) France.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 7 of 13

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For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism.

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