Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Jonathan Safran Foer's pup-in-cheek essay " Let Them Eat Dog " (Weekend Journal, Oct. Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Currently, I am very interested in social and political philosophy and ethical issues. I felt a strong sense of connection to the ideas of Peter Singer while taking Ethics from Keith. I do not believe that the current factory farm system in place lives up to both of those standards. So, I took the plunge.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. Or new markets could be found among the countries of the world where meat consumption is slight; more need for meat could be produced among nonvegetarians and dogs and cats. The next assumption is no less dubious.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Many people exclude animals from moral consideration, even though they would never think to neglect, much less harm, a dog or a cat. Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? It is natural to feel sympathy for animals who are suffering. Have you taken the time to investigate this?

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

We "traditionally" have applied our social mores in some places and not others, and we should go back to "tradition," which I bet has something to do with continuing to care about our dogs while continuing to feign care for "farm animals," as they're value is as food only. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." They belong to the canine species Nyctereutes procyonoides. was advertised to online customers as having an "imitation rabbit fur collar."

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