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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

And most of us, of course, just don't know about this. Human ingenuity is great, and undoubtedly a skilful vegetarian cook can come up with quite a panoply of delicious dishes. How do we know but what, once we got used to a vegetarian diet, we would find that our pleasure is scarcely diminished at all?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

I'm sure we could do a much better job of ensuring the humane treatment of our laboratory animals--but at this point it's very difficult even to start the discussion. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine. Maybe on paper.