Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

The wrongness of factory farming is overdetermined. Why does it not call for the abolition of factory farming? Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. Moore looks like he has eaten one too many hamburgers.)

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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