Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 15, 2006

The study also found that: "IQ remained a statistically significant predictor of being vegetarian as an adult after adjustment for social class (both in childhood and currently), academic or vocational qualifications, and sex." I suspect that many of the vegetarians in Gale's study base their vegetarianism on just such moral reasons.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to the HSUS press release, HSUS revealed earlier this week that Burlington Coat Factory was falsely advertising real fur garments as faux fur in newspaper circulars, on its web site, and in store displays at its 350 locations nationwide. One of the questions on the survey is: "Is it morally permissible to kill animals for fur coats?"

Fur 40

Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40

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. Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. Premise (4) is widely acknowledged.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40