Experience, Humane, Suffering and Vegetarian

The Book That Saved Derrick Jensen's Life

Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

Vegan

Vegan Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming

Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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. Most people hold that it is wrong to cause animals unnecessary suffering.

Vegetarian

Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo

Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Do they suffer any more or less in death? There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions.

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Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection

Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. But I’m merely making his point.

Vegan

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On Indigenous People and Animals

Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

God thinks vegetarians are evil, and we want to please god. Ingesting suffering can't possibly be good for anyone's karma. They say they are taking the abundant gifts Mother Earth gives them and they are grateful for the sacred experience of communing with her. Not to be confused with #1, this one comes directly from The Bible.

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Animal Killing Slaughter Slaughtered

Reasons Consistently Applied

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.

Lacto-Ovo

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal

Introducing Myself

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. I simply believe that when animals are killed it ought to be for a good purpose, and in a manner that is respectful to their capacity to suffer.

Factory Farm

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing

On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures. One of the most important aspects determining human behaviour is their social environment. How about this?

Psychology

Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering

On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

The reason we need to save the gorillas and their habitats (it's a book on gorilla "conservation") is--and this is from memory so there could be more--that gorillas have thumbs, just like humans do. All animals except the dog are called "it" (I did a little experiment to see what would happen). That makes sense to me.

Gorillas

Gorillas Pets Vegan Speciesism

Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

If you are already a vegetarian, make this the year that you decide to go vegan. i) Do attend socially conscious circuses like Cirque de Soleil that exclusively feature human performers. (j) j) Donate only to Humane Charities that don't test on animals. A list of Humane Charities is available here. Do it for the animals.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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. He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely).

Factory Farm

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat

Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.”.

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The Book That Saved Derrick Jensen's Life

Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

On Indigenous People and Animals

Reasons Consistently Applied

Introducing Myself

Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

On the Psychological Continuum

On "Pets" and "Its"

Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Flight to Freedom

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