Remove Bears Remove Cows Remove Hunters Remove Suffering
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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

10,000 Birds

At first, the road is paved, but as soon as the tarmac ends, the tracks become decorated by hunters in orange vests. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). Cows and water buffaloes grazing the dried up lakebed under the imposing shadow of Mt. It’s the boar hunting season.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Even Peter Singer would eat these cows, assuming he had a taste for beef, which he probably doesn’t. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) Why wouldn’t they? KBJ: Ditto. If not, why not?

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