Remove Cattle Remove Experience Remove Raised Remove Suffering
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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

10,000 Birds

That paper raises an interesting question: “When less attractive people accept less attractive dates, do they persuade themselves that the people they choose to date are more physically attractive than others perceive them to be? In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

If beef cattle who could not feel pain were developed, then it would be permissible to eat them. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. This brings us to the third attempt at justification. KBJ: Ditto.

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