Animal Person

JUNE 29, 2009

Other than being a vegan, the most important actions you can take to help animals who are used for food are: Give generously to organizations that help those sentient nonhumans directly, such as Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary , Maple Farm Sanctuary , Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary and Eastern Shore Sanctuary. Give generously to Tribe of Heart.

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Animal Person

MAY 29, 2009

Nothing about its " Alliances " (or it's " Issues ") screams vegan, or even whispers it, but I shall reserve judgment. less processed food and more fresh, organic fruits, veggies, grains and legumes), than I'm thrilled. veganism. was at the Delray Beach Film Festival last weekend, about 30 miles south of me. But I wasn't.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

My inbox this month has informed me that November is Vegan Awareness Month! I am a vegan who has adopted a diabetic greyhound who eats vegan food ( Natural Balance ), and who is adopting a boy from Russia. As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical.

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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. But it might kill someone else, as in the case of hot dogs, considering no creature gets out of the hot-dog making process alive. Tags: Ethics Language. Sometimes permanently.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. And with everything our brains are processing and attempting to cope with, we need all the help we can get. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics.

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Animal Person

JULY 17, 2009

Do you use the idea of "evil" in your thinking and processing of animal rights and veganism? Tags: Ethics Language. Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? Does evil imply you know better and you choose X anyway? Is evil an excuse we make for people?

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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. The crucial question is this: Do we need to eat animals in order to be optimally healthy?

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights animal snuff films free speech Supreme Court Vamsee Juluri veganism. Need it be gratuitous to be offensive? What do you think?

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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. a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease.

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Animal Person

JULY 19, 2009

What's interesting to me today, however, is the process of "the flip" (my term). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. ORIGINS includes items I didn't know about, and I've read far more about misconceptions of English than the average person. The flip is when, for instance, the word "bad" comes to mean "really good."

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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. My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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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. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Not great, but good. He never says he is.

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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. If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? Killing a hog can be avoided.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. It does not seem to be true in general that one is inconsistent if one uses a product that is produced by some process that one believes violates one’s moral principles. causing a decline in U.S. milk production.

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