Animal Person

JULY 6, 2009

We are people who believe that using animals when we don't need to, and certainly killing them when we don't need to, isn't right. We are vegans because it's the right thing to do if we claim to believe that sentient nonhumans are not here to satisfy our wants, desires and profit motives. Is cooking food "natural"?

Vegan 100

Vegan Lifestyle Fast Food Farming 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Only then will these companies “do the right thing,” if only to ensure their continued survival. You will enjoy a much better meal and can safely cook it to your preferred doneness, although it will cost more. The only way the meat industry will change its ways is for people to stop buying ground beef and cause sales to plummet.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Hamburgers Meat Industry 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 24, 2007

As much as these individuals would like to do the right thing and stop supporting factory farms with their purchases, they think the sacrifice is just too great. Their latest effort is their co-authored book The Vegan Joy of Cooking, due out this fall. This reaction is due largely to a lack of imagination. Watch out Emeril!

Vegan 40

Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

Human ingenuity is great, and undoubtedly a skilful vegetarian cook can come up with quite a panoply of delicious dishes. Jan Narveson , "Animal Rights," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7 [March 1977]: 161-78, at 173-4 [italics in original])

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Vegetarian Cooking Slaughter 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

The sleight of hand that gave us the “selfish” gene gives us the rights of baboons. But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands. And that explains, in part, the appeal of the animal-rights movement.

Animal 40

Animal Morals Apes Emotional 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Eat right. What counts as eating right? Eat right—I will eat a diet low in fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium, and high in complex carbohydrates and fiber; and I will limit my consumption of empty calories like those found in sweets, soda pop, and trendy high-calorie coffee drinks and energy drinks. Lose weight.

Rights 40

Rights Animal Cruelty Vegan Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Eat right. What counts as eating right? Eat right—I will eat a diet low in fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium, and high in complex carbohydrates and fiber; and I will limit my consumption of empty calories like those found in sweets, soda pop, and trendy high-calorie coffee drinks. Lose weight. Quit smoking.

2007 40

2007 Rights Animal Cruelty Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. As the Newsweek story indicates, 38 states have passed laws giving women the right to breastfeed in any public or private place she’d otherwise be allowed to be. Breast-feeding does just that.

Animal 40

Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! Some stats include the fact that over three million rural Ghanaians depend on forests for survival, and about 69% of all urban households use charcoal for cooking and heating.

Ghana 195

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 195