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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

10,000 Birds

A narrow forest road takes us to the chain blocking the entrance, with a sign “Area closed – bear danger”. This feeding station is not here for the tourists: in order to lower the bee-hive raiding (even the Serbian word for a bear, medved, comes from the word honey – med), supplementary feeding was offered to local bears for several decades.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Ridicule of Vegetarians

Animal Ethics

But what of the many individual failures, it is asked, among those who make trial of Vegetarianism? In an ordinary household every possible influence, social and domestic, is brought to bear on the heretic who abstains from flesh foods. Well, so be it!

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

And the other is taking up vegetarianism. But what about the vegetarian alternative? How do we know but what, once we got used to a vegetarian diet, we would find that our pleasure is scarcely diminished at all? Here what one needs to do is calculate the pleasure, interest, satisfaction, etc.,

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H. J. McCloskey on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

If, for instance, it is determined that gravely mentally defective human beings and monsters born of human parents are not the kinds of beings who may possess rights, this bears on how we may treat them. If animals have rights, the case for vegetarianism is prima facie very strong, and is comparable with the case against cannibalism. (

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R. G. Frey on the Principle of the Equal Consideration of Interests

Animal Ethics

According to Singer , the principle of the equal consideration of interests 'requires us to be vegetarians'. By forgoing meat in our diets, we can reduce, if not eliminate, this massive suffering of animals, merely through bringing market forces to bear upon factory farming.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

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. Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning. KBJ: Nothing.

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