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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

Many people of no great education and of no prestigious social position certainly belong to my envisaged moral elite. Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer. Smart , "Ethics and Science," Philosophy 56 [October 1981]: 449-65, at 453 [italics in original])

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif., Caroline Abels Montpelier, Vt.,