Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

Michael Martin is a professor of philosophy at Boston University. A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. Let’s see whether his criticisms of moral vegetarianism are good ones.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. BRINNING Boston, Dec. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse? Animals suffer when killed. No pearly phrases can make that any better. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y., Hunters like him.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 21, 2008

Salt , The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues [London: The Ideal Publishing Union, 1899], 36) Note from KBJ: Here is Franklin: I believe I have omitted mentioning that, in my first voyage from Boston, being becalm'd off Block Island, our people set about catching cod, and hauled up a great many.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. It has been recently reported in the Boston Globe (Jane O’Reilly, “The Bottle and the 3rd World,” July 8, 1976, p. The question arises: Why should such indirect causal influence have any moral import?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

She lives at Indigo Hill, an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio with her husband, Bill Thompson III, their children Phoebe and Liam, and their Boston terrier, Chet Baker. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

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