article thumbnail

Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. Trivial or insignificant reasons won’t do. (p. Cross and Michael F.

article thumbnail

The Power, The Prestige, The Glory…I Am Birder

10,000 Birds

It is difficult to speak of…the explosion, the flames, the blood, the inhuman screams, the terrible sound of metal being ripped apart. I know not how I possessed this knowledge…it is the only thing I have ever experience that cannot be explained by Science. It started many years ago. There you have it birders.

Inhumane 197
article thumbnail

Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

And it certainly doesn't follow that it is permissible to eat meat that comes from animals who were forced to endure horribly inhumane factory farm conditions and who were then slaughtered inhumanely. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms. Over 95% of all animals raised for food in the U.S. Running time: 12 Minutes.