Animal Person

MAY 28, 2009

Image via Wikipedia I found The Goode Family disappointing on the vegan side. One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. Are Baby Boomers killing Facebook and Twitter? Yeah, lots of mockery, but I didn't laugh.

Family 100

Family Vegan Vegetarian Animal Welfare 100

Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

Vegan 100

Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

When in the position of having the choice, which so far is always, I'd rather choose not to have someone killed for me. The two objections to a vegan Thanksgiving that I hear most often are: It's our tradition and Because it tastes good. This is a tough one to even dignify as it's not a good reason for killing someone.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Forced Molting Debeaking Vegan 100

Animal Person

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I recall one day when his sister-in-law was speaking with him about what she was feeding her children, and it wasn't a vegan-centered conversation. In fairness, I think that what the linguistically lazy are really trying to say is that a little bit of a bad thing isn't going to kill you. Tags: Ethics Language.

Vegan 100

Vegan Laws Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we can still kill and eat fish, yet not be at war with them. That tells me that we're still at war, as we are going to continue to kill fish because we can and we want to. "We are fighting a war against fish, and we are.

Vegan 100

Vegan Fish Industry Slaughter 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill. Nonviolence" is much more difficult to finesse if you're killing animals for a living. Or vegan pumpkin pie. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. The Nonviolent Carnivore"? I don't think so. Is it fair? Is it just ?

Compassion 100

Compassion Psychology Tnr Vegan 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Also, an update on Emily's 50% vegan (Ami) diet. And the "strict ethical vegan" to come.) And then it proceeds to: "None of these questions, however, make any consideration of whether it is wrong to kill animals for human consumption." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Vegan Ethics Meat 100

Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

And how, for the love of God, people have got so stop saying things like Vegan Before 6! See Vegan Between Meals for more). From the vegan equals vegetarian discussion, to the nonviolence does or doesn't include property damage, to certain abolitionists deciding that they are in fact the only real abolitionists, it has gotten comical.

Vegan 100

Vegan Vegetarian Animal Feral Cats 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

The next argument is usually something along the lines of: But animals in the wild might starve to death, and get injured, maimed or killed by predators! Finally, people who object to our moral stance jump species and say we should object to the lion killing the gazelle. Tags: Ethics Language. Yes, that's true.

Gazelles 100

Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

Animal Person

JULY 6, 2009

Spencer R writes: Vegans sound exactly like religious fundamentalists. Trying to convince people to go vegan is like trying to convince people to only reproduce once. Trying to convince people to go vegan is like trying to convince people to only reproduce once. not to mention read more writing by actual vegans.

Vegan 100

Vegan Lifestyle Fast Food Farming 100

Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Let's deconstruct: The interview reminds me of how the industry views us and how little they know about the community of people who care about the lives of the animals brought into this world for one reason only: to kill and eat them. Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos? .

Veal Crate 100

Veal Crate HSUS Vegan Gestation Crates 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

While spending hours in the car I've been thinking about various issues related to sentient nonhumans, animal rights and veganism. Trying to program kids to accept the killing of someone they love is cruel. And vegans are accused of imposing our belief systems and brainwashing kids? Two links in particular struck me recently.

Vegan 100

Vegan Ethics Humane Killing 100

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

But alas, we' re too important and special to "manage," and every human pregnancy is treated as a sacred, blessed event, while we kill the kittens inside pregnant feral cats every day without batting an eyelash, and in fact we're relieved when we can catch one who's pregnant, as that's x number of cats who don't have to come into this world.

Project Treadstone 100

Project Treadstone Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

When I think about the language that has been used by people who kill animals or have someone else do it for them, a couple of years ago the "compassionate" trend began. Maybe "humane" is already on its way out for the folks trying to convince themselves and others that humane killing isn't an oxymoron. That one left me speechless. "My

Chickens 100

Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. And not all organizations that advocate for animals claim to have a "genuine environmentalist ethic," and the ones that do must subscribe to his ethic or they're not genuine? Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My In this case, the spirit of the corpse. And for the animal, it means death.

Killing 100

Killing Vegan Goats Buffalo 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

First, check out " The Vegan Solution: An Ideal Whose Time Has Come " over at Care2. And former vegan, Chuck Roomi, who says veganism isn't practical "For people who do not have a desire to eat exotic foods from thousands of miles away, or mechanically-formulated suplements" also warrants a response. " which includes a poll.

Elephants 100

Elephants Vegan Bullhook Laws 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40

Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters.

Zoos 100

Zoos Pets Ponies Cruelty 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent.

Polar Bears 100

Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being.

Lacto-Ovo 40

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created. 3) They disagree with me, not about sentience, but about some god putting animals here for us, or some other reason why we can kill animals even though their sentient.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

Animal Person

JULY 14, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Language.

Vegan 100

Vegan Industry Killing Ethics 100

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2010

First, Chris directed me to ePub Bud , which appears to be a timely and fantastic idea given my recent plea for more books for children about veganism. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language ePub Introverts Jamie Oliver The End of the Line What's on Your Plate. Another bit of misinformation is that when you get diabetes it's forever.

Animal Rights Movement 100

Animal Rights Movement Animal Sanctuary Neutering Animal Rights 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering. Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Los Angeles, Oct. Bell & Evans has heard them and set a new standard in the chicken-supply industry.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Los Angeles Ethical Treatment 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

There are two approaches a vegetarian might take in arguing that rearing and killing animals for food is morally offensive. He might argue that eating animals is morally bad because of the pain inflicted on animals in rearing and killing them to be eaten. Or he could object to the killing itself.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

April 9, 2009 To the Editor: In making the personal decision of where to place ourselves in our ethical relationship with animals, it is important to evaluate the reality of our words. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster?

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

Two varieties of moral vegetarianism can be distinguished: lactovo moral vegetarianism and vegan moral vegetarianism. Lactovo and vegan moral vegetarianism can be subdivided into what might be called new and old or traditional moral vegetarianism. Would it be morally permissible for you to kill some people and eat them?

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

Suppose further that such blood is obtained without killing the animal and without causing the animal pain. Would the blood drinker be sinning against the principles of lactovo moral vegetarianism or just the principles of vegan moral vegetarianism? Suppose someone enjoys drinking the blood of cattle and hogs.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Suffering Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Death by Veganism ,” by Nina Planck (Op-Ed, May 21): I am a nutritionist who testified as an expert witness for the prosecution in the criminal trial of the parents of Crown Shakur. As the lead prosecutor in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet. Contrary to Ms.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan 2007 40

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I say "if you know someone" because this isn't a book I'd recommend to vegans for their vegan education efforts. The vegans I know would probably find it a bit maddening, and here's why: We aren't sure whether Foer is a vegan. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi.

Factory Farm 100

Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

This brings up the question of how one can distinguish between what is forbidden by lactovo moral vegetarianism and vegan moral vegetarianism. This becomes especially true when one realizes that vegetarians often argue that a reason that it is prima facie wrong to eat animals is that animals must be killed to provide the food.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Lions 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning. Second, it might be argued that although it is wrong to kill microorganisms, it is not obvious that eating them kills them. Killing a hog can be avoided.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40

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.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40