Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. For example, if one could pick up shed animal legs in a pasture in which animals roam freely among their own kind, there might be no moral objection to eating the legs. They suggest that any simple moral vegetarianism is impossible.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2013

” Nevertheless, Burgess’s overt determination to combine, in his own words, the “teaching of the facts of natural history and the teaching of moral lessons” had long fallen out of fashion by the time I came on the scene.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." What kind of definition of respect includes: I don't need to kill you but I'm going to because it will make me money?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. Mr. Foer's book "Eating Animals" is definitely worth the reading for any individual who has the guts to face the facts of a meat-based diet and the damage it is doing to man and animal alike.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. By definition, it’s a feeling that one tries to hide. Is this moral? As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.” They can also be best friends to one another.

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