Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It is doubtful that the best approach to conserving grain is to become a vegetarian.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. SOME PROBLEMS OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM With respect to traditional moral vegetarianism some problems immediately come to the fore. Who Should Not Eat Meat, or What Does a Vegetarian Feed His Dog? Not necessarily.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. For example, on Tooley’s analysis, having a right to life is the same as being a person. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. The Argument from Animal Rights A stronger argument is made by people who maintain that animals have rights.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

It's the perfect example of a market being created out of nothing. Tags: vegan milk corporate lies cows vegetarian. But really, it's not natural for us to be drinking milk past infancy. Of misinformation that is repeated so often it becomes fact. Lactose intolerant people are actually the normal ones.

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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. Premise (7) is clearly true, but don’t take my word for it. The answer, according to the ADA, is “No.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2018

Whitaker’s beautifully-composed example of avian portraiture – the like of which we see all too rarely on beer cans – was commissioned for Osprey’s Fresh Catch, a new India pale ale from Horus Aged Ales of Oceanside, California. Which is just as well, as I’m sure the Osprey would enjoy the odd fish swim bladder more than we.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I've also found that there are all kinds of activists and videos and concerts and demonstrations and books that I've never even heard of, that cause omnivores and vegetarians to go vegan. I'll be using his inspirational story as an example for my own friends and family.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 10, 2009

Nor is it only among schoolboys that over-eating is rampant, for the tables of the wealthy are everywhere loaded with flesh-meat, and the example thus set is naturally followed, first in the servants' hall, and then, as far as may be, in the homes of the working classes. Good living," unfortunately, is a somewhat equivocal term.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

which may be called the Consistency Trick—akin to that known in common parlance as the tu quoque or "you're another"—the device of setting up an arbitrary standard of "consistency," and then demonstrating that the Vegetarian himself, judged by that standard, is as "inconsistent" as other persons.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. Instead, it seeks to reform it. Animal rights is neither progressive nor conservative. Moore looks like he has eaten one too many hamburgers.) Many progressives care only about human beings.

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Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

In my opinion, and I am a vegetarian, the second definition of humane is the MINIMAL that we should expect. There have been several high-profile cases of severe abuse that only require a search on the web (examples include turkeys being used as punching bags while alive and paint being sprayed into hogs’ eyes for “fun.")

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2011

Finally, those who do not accept the argument from potentiality will have to rely on the overflow principle to generate any restraints whatever on our behaviour towards the foetus, the infant, the curably or incurably mad, and even, it would seem, the deeply but reversibly unconscious (someone in dreamless sleep for example).

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 16, 2006

He can even write about personal things, such as his attempt to become a vegetarian. For example, I’m a conservative, politically speaking. He can put up informational items, as I often do; he can argue; he can write book reviews; he can criticize arguments; he can comment on public affairs. Maybe he’ll share some recipes! Stay tuned.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. First, it is dubious that becoming a vegetarian would have much effect on present practice. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. causing a decline in U.S.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. And when I spoke about a continuum over a year ago as a result of a workshop with Rae Sikora, who demonstrated that there was a continuum, there was some discontent. How about this? I assume Francione does not disagree.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Unlike birds, they do not vocalize; unlike butterflies, they are totally predatory, not a vegetarian amongst them. Here is an example: I think I saw a Red-tailed Pennant, Brachymesia Furcata, two weeks ago in the Florida Keys; that’s my photo above. Length of copulation for forktails, for example, varies greatly.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

If you are already a vegetarian, make this the year that you decide to go vegan. For example: 1. Resolving to do right by animals and to stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty is yet another powerful example of ethical synergy at work. Lose weight—I will lose 10 pounds by March 15th.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism. If eating meat were essential for our survival, then the hundreds of millions of vegetarians worldwide would have long since died out, but they haven't. They are alive and well.

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