Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. I suspect that many readers of this blog are Christians but not vegetarians. The contrast would be, for example, “health vegetarianism.”

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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. KBJ: There are two types of rights: autonomy rights, which protect autonomy, and welfare rights, which protect interests.

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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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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 Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. I'm not saying welfare reform is the answer, but that ceasing the use of an animal is the only action that will completely alleviate suffering. How about this? I assume Francione does not disagree.

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