Animal Person
AUGUST 19, 2009
Farmer writes about the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, where kids 5 to 11-years old are taught cooking in a place "that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure." Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? But I bet anything doesn't go. fun" said one (female) child. One is male.
Animal Person
JULY 6, 2009
It's an especially ridiculous concept because the vegans in modern western society would not be able to maintain their living standards without the exploitation of dirt-poor humans in third world countries across the globe. We are not ignorant of the exploitation of humans that often goes hand-in-hand with the exploitation of nonhumans.
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Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2008
What the utilitarian who defends human carnivorousness must say, then, is something like this: that the amount of pleasure which humans derive per pound of animal flesh exceeds the amount of discomfort and pain per pound which are inflicted on the animals in the process, all things taken into account. Is this plausible?
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. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace. Running time: 12 Minutes.
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