Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2007

I wrote to you about a year ago to inform you of my decision to stop eating meat. I have eaten meat 1 time in 1 year, by accident. At the time you advised that I should do so slowly, rather than just stopping one day. At the time, I decided to continue eating fish, just to make sure that I wouldn't crave too much.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The federal government neither adequately protects nor informs consumers about the animal products they eat or of the health hazards of eating them. Because Congress has pre-empted the field, states have been unable to enact additional laws that require meat producers to provide consumers with accurate and relevant product information.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The Argument from Brutalization The previous argument was based on an alleged indirect effect on human beings of not eating meat. It is argued that the killing and eating of meat indirectly tends to brutalize people. People who do not eat meat tend to be less cruel and inhumane to persons than people who do eat meat.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

As Lukas informs us, a "beefsteak" is a raucous sexist feeding frenzy where 350 (all white) men sit shoulder to shoulder at long tables and gorge themselves on beefsteak soaked in a blood and butter sauce. In this New York Times story, author Paul Lukas glorifies a New Jersey custom known among the locals as a "beefsteak."

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ More Perils of Ground Meat ” (editorial, Jan. According to the most recent information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FoodNet Data, there have been no significant increases in food-borne illness since 2005, and there were significant declines before then. percent from 0.47

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The doctor looks wise, shakes his head, and informs a sorrowing circle that it is the direct result of "his vegetarianism."

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

I’m not gong to go into the ethics and reasons behind why a zoo might want to, well, manage its stock. The elimination of vultures had its own knock on effects, such as the increase in feral dogs (now that there was more meat available for them) and corresponding increase in rabies.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Her use of the term food “fashion” is appropriate: many people today do not make informed choices about their diet; rather, they are influenced by trends, advertising and the political correctness of food. Amy Joy Lanou Washington, May 21, 2007 The writer is senior nutrition scientist, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

I think that greyhound racing and circuses are uses of animals that most people aren't thinking too much about, but if they did, and if they were presented with all of the stats and the behind-the-scenes information, they'd easily opt out, as they have nothing to lose. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 15, 2006

People with higher IQs are presumably much more likely than people with lower IQs to possess accurate information as to which behaviors promote health and which behaviors promote disease. Gale thinks that her study "provides further evidence that people with a higher IQ tend to have a healthier lifestyle."

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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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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 25, 2006

Here is a website that contains information about St Francis. So you must decide for yourself, on independent grounds, whether to eat meat. Here is a New York Times story about St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. If you're a Christian, please reflect on the following. Your religion does not require that you eat animals.

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