Wild Thing
Animal Ethics
APRIL 4, 2007
Look at all the animals you can kill, butcher, cook, and eat in one city. It makes me want to go out and slaughter a gopher.
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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment
Animal Person
JULY 6, 2009
You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals. 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. Is cooking food "natural"? Is bread "natural"?
Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness
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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