Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

Psychology 100

Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2012

Being Australian, it has a dugong, not a manatee, but sure enough the sea cow in question did manage to make me jump out of my chair at one point, which is not too shabby for one of nature’s most notoriously harmless and soothing creatures. There was an old apple orchard in the cow pasture on my parent’s farm. Which I was.

Possums 117

Possums Cows Psychology Jamaica 117

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine also recommends breast-feeding infants: Breast-feeding is nature's way of meeting the infant's nutritional needs, and also helps boost immunity, not to mention its psychological benefits. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas.

Animal 40

Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If someone’s sole reason for abstaining from meat were pain-avoidance, then there would be no reason not to eat these cows. Even Peter Singer would eat these cows, assuming he had a taste for beef, which he probably doesn’t. Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. Why wouldn’t they?

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40