Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

On the animal front, there is definitely a message that factory farming is unsustainable, and that subsistence farming is and was preferable; there is a vague if-we-did-it-differently-it-might-be-sustainable message. Plus though the film isn't long (under two hours), it covers an enormous amount of ground (!), But that's me.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

And because that's his premise, he proceeds to investigate both factory farming and smaller operations that include grazing and allowing the animals to live a relatively natural life (after their unnatural beginning and let's not forget about their unnatural end). Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics James E.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. He is mere steps away from wondering whether there is a right way to use another, but those steps are a chasm for him. In " Food for the Soul ," Kristof once again yearns for the farm of his childhood which, for him, had "soul."

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. It allows you to swoop in with an alternative to the disgraceful human behavior that is factory farming and provide a kindler, gentler way to partake of the flesh of others.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Unlike many humans, they don't burden their bodies with flesh they didn't evolve to eat or factory stuff like hydrogenated oils or tooth-eroding sugar & acid concoctions unless given them by humans.) Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The discussion about the environment usually originates in the massive problems created by the factory farming of sentient nonhumans. The arguments against factory farming, which most recently were articulated by Jonathan Safran Foer (who has caused quite a stir in the mainstream), are legion.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

If there were ever a movement devoted to the principles set out in The Vegetarian Myth and if it proved successful, such a movement would easily result in a spectacular reduction in the suffering and torture of animals, compared to what they experience today in factory farms and due to ecosystem devastation.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The general premises about natural reactions do not yield ethical conclusions. Conditions inside peanut butter factories may be less than appetizing, yet this hardly provides moral grounds for refraining from eating peanut butter. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Furthermore, the argument cuts too deep.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

If, on the other hand, the legs are produced in factory conditions, there is a moral objection. KBJ: This is true of every normative ethical theory, from natural law to divine command to utilitarianism to egoism to contractarianism to Kantian deontology. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. What is supposed to follow? KBJ: Bingo.

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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 Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." And they certainly wouldn't hurt anybody; that's what those big factory farms do that aren't owned by families. Yes, factory farms are the stuff of nightmares for nonhuman animals.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

Hence the psychological continuum described (below) by Austria's Association Against Animal Factories from about a year ago. Tags: Activism Language. I like the idea of remembering that an individual's mind and that individual's behavior can be perfectly dissonant without causing life-threatening damage or problems for that person.

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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). Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language.

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