Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

Felicia Horton inquires/protests: "If they're cutting up [animals], are you going to want to come up front an eat some meat?" I wonder if she actually said "If they're cutting up meat. ". Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Perhaps all sandwich shops should be housed in abattoirs.

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Animal Person

APRIL 3, 2009

The article is called " How I Learned to Love Goat Meat " (thanks, Bea), and its author Henry Alford, as you might imagine, discovers the wonders of goat flesh consumption and tells us all about his journey. That's how Henry Alford learned to love goat meat, and that's how Mary Martin learned to dislike Henry Alford.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try Try not to think about the "meat" being "raised" and the "it."

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is a meat-eating professor of animal welfare, another is an animal rights activist, and the third is an animal researcher. Tags: ethics animal rights medical research. I thought this was an interesting piece contrasting three different people and their relationships with animals.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it). it's "not eating animals.".

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Here' s a review by vegetarian Mark Hand, who still eschewed "meat" even after reading the book. Some might argue that Keith has simply become an advocate of “happy meat”—local, grass-fed, sustainably produced, and humanely raised meat. Tags: Activism Books Ethics. But that would be unfair.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Finally, in my e-mailbox this morning, and probably in yours, was the Care2 newsletter, including a link to a column about a restaurant in Arizona that will soon serve burgers made from lion meat. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Words like 'pastured,' 'grass-fed,' and 'free-range' are now synonymous with quality meat; they carry a potent if symbolic meaning that has eased many a consumer’s conscience and driven many a marketing campaign." The chef's perspective is represented by Dan Barber, who serves Eggleston's meat. Potent if symbolic? Not eating them.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The Botai did not just herd horses for meat. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. The site was where northern Kazakhstan is now, the culture was called Botai and the date was around 3500 B.C. Scientists found bit-wear marks on Botai horses’ teeth — a clear sign the animals were being ridden.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

We don't advocate "happy meat" but veganism. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. The idea is not to focus on conditions -though they are unavoidably visible- but on exploitation itself. As far as I'm concerned, Peaceable Kingdom can't be released soon enough.)

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Animal Person

JANUARY 20, 2010

None of those approve of a vegan diet and all it took was one conversation, and me hearing that "they have to eat meat" from people who believe people "have to eat meat" to know that the issue wasn't ever going to be resolved. Tags: Books Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

But my initial reaction is that this is like Americans giving up "red meat." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink. He often has insight into why something might be different in action than what I think in theory when it comes to China. What do you think?

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Animal Person

JUNE 13, 2009

But with so many other topics to cover, such as water and oil, that message that happy meat is acceptable doesn't even get any airtime. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Film Environmentalism Factory Farm Glenn Close Home Veganism Winged Migration. I think that any film that presents a problem should also provide solution.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

If a person cares about what "livestock" experience on their way to becoming "meat," there is one easy, inexpensive action that person can take to make certain s/he is not a party to the various kinds and levels of suffering and injustice the animals experience. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

Second, if the people who believe this would eat all of their "meat" unseasoned and raw, after having killed the source animal with their bare hands and ripped open the carcass with nothing but said hands and some teeth, I'd feel like maybe their argument was at least sincere. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film.

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

Not only do they have vegan entrees, but they will substitute tofu for any meat in any dish, so you can eat just about anything on the menu! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language. There I was, going to lunch with newbie vegan, Cristy, who is terrified of restaurants since going vegan. C: What a relief.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Perhaps it can be unpacked in this way: the blood and gore of slaughter houses is disgusting and is enough to turn many people’s stomachs; so if people saw what went on in slaughter houses, they would not eat meat; consequently one should become a vegetarian. The explanation is ignorance: These people do not know how their meat is produced.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Nevertheless there is, as far as I can determine, no moral duty not to eat meat, and one who eats meat is not thereby committing any moral error. One is inclined to say: “If you really want to protest animal suffering or commit yourself to helping hungry people, instead of not eating meat you should.” (see One final point.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2009

The chimp would examine it and quickly slam the meat right back at him. Is he assuming that man’s meat eating is a perversion of his natural instincts, which are inherited from monkeys? But aside from the fact that the truth of this ethical assumption is not obvious, it is not true that monkeys are man’s nearest relatives.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. Second, it seems to assume that not eating meat is the best way to conserve grain. None of these assumptions seems plausible.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Who Should Not Eat Meat, or What Does a Vegetarian Feed His Dog? Since animals cannot be judged morally praiseworthy or blameworthy, the question of whether it is morally wrong for them to eat meat cannot be raised. Does this mean that a vegetarian would have to feed his dog some meat substitute? Not necessarily.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

For example, we will not claim that Martin is opposed to moral vegetarianism because he likes to eat meat without a guilty conscience. Indeed, two well-known moral and social philosophers, Robert Nozick and Peter Singer, have recently advocated not eating meat on moral grounds. KBJ: There are different reasons to abstain from meat.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

All these would have to be tagged if the National Animal Identification System becomes mandatory, and for no purpose, because none of my animals will be sold overseas for food. I expect that the industry groups would like to put my farmer friends out of business with the costs and hassles of tagging their animals, to eliminate competition.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2009

The Argument from Superior Aliens’ Invasion John Harris advances the following consideration to show the immorality of eating meat. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Please don’t say that there aren’t any superior aliens.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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. In other words, "EATING ANIMALS" is a remarkably palatable book for the masses.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

Of course that also brings up the dilemma of feeding cats and fish, who are omnivores and actually need to eat some meat in order to be healthy. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Can we ever meet the needs of fishes by keeping them in our homes?

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Few people are that invested that they'd put up a fight, as they would regarding their beloved "meat," which they strangely think they cannot live without and they have all kinds of emotional attachment to. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters. This is such a small request (if you live in Ireland!)--to

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

Consequently, one ought not to eat meat until actual practice is changed. The question that must be raised, however, is how the conclusion not to eat meat follows from this. So, if one wants to change the present practice, the best means is to stop eating meat. Consequently, one ought not to eat meat. milk production.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. We do not need meat, let alone pork, in order to live. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 6, 2009

According to this argument, the view that eating the meat of nonhuman animals is morally permissible but eating the meat of human beings is morally forbidden is analogous to racism or sexism. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. Just as racism and sexism are to be morally condemned, so is speciesism. KBJ: Ditto.

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