Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The Indiana Daily Student wrote an article today encouraging people to kill and eat man's best friend! It's morally permissible to eat cows. It's morally permissible to eat cows. It's not morally permissible to eat dogs. There are no morally relevant differences between cows and dogs.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated. To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. Mr. Steiner rightly rejects this view as morally flawed. Wolves eat sheep.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. Tennessee found that out in January. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

The NY Times article Keith linked to earlier today (see here ) points out that fur sales are up 9% over last year and from this statistic goes on to infer that "fur is back in style." Each semester when I teach Contemporary Moral Issues, on the first day of class I begin with a survey. Just how do Chinese workers kill raccoon dogs?"

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Is this moral? He says of this behavior, “It was a moral raven seeking the human equivalent of justice, because it defended the group’s interest at a potential cost to itself.&#. Marc Bekoff wrote this article for Can Animals Save Us? ,

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

As the lead prosecutor in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet. To the Editor: Nina Planck’s article touches on a particularly important topic. Kelly New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: Thank you for publishing Nina Planck’s excellent article, “Death by Veganism.” Children need protein.

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