Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2008
For we must realize that the question is whether this justifies the eating of animals in comparison with alternatives. But it should be noted that this is only a leading premise, as it were, of a complete argument on the issue.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).
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