Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

They believe you can take a life that doesn't want to be taken in a humane way, and I don't agree. And when that happens, you know what direction you're headed: the justification of taking the lives of sentient nonhumans to please the palates of humans. And there's no way around that. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Using a mousetrap can be justified by defense of self or property (though there are more humane ways of getting rid of pests). Eating meat and using mousetraps are as different (morally speaking) as night and day. Eating meat cannot be so justified. Nobody needs to eat meat in order to survive or flourish.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. The Argument from Animal Rights A stronger argument is made by people who maintain that animals have rights. In particular, it has been argued that animals have a right to life. The subject is a large and controversial one.

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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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