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Please Share "Silencing the Lambs"

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Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film animal rights Tribe of Heart.

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On Thanking Slaughtered Sheep for Book Awards

Animal Person

She expressed her gratitude for those she kills in her book, as well: "When I first ate a meal from one of our lambs, I thought I'd be upset, since it'd been so hard to take them to the abbattoir. But instead of being sad or upset at the lamb chop on my plate, I was overcome with gratitude. Tags: Books Current Affairs Ethics.

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On Objections to Slaughterhouses Not Sandwich Shops

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Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up). Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Said operation will be housed in the back of a building that has a Subway sandwich shop in the front.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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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. And there are ethical reasons for becoming vegetarian. Ethical synergy at work.

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Gardner Williams (1895-1972) on Wronging Animals

Animal Ethics

Anyone who loves little lambs in a personal way more than he loves lamb chops in a gustatory way ought to forego the latter delicacies. The moral issue, when a man eats lamb chops, is not: Does he gain more value than the lambs have lost by dying so young? But few people do this. And eating them will frustrate this love.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. We call ourselves vegetarians. Patti Breitman Fairfax, Calif.,

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Sophistry

Animal Ethics

The wolf devours the lamb, and is no worse a wolf for it; but if he seek, as in the fable, to give quibbling excuses for his wolfishness, he becomes a byword for hypocrisy. The spirit that absolves is one of unquestioning faith, not of far-fetched sophistry.

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