Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 4, 2009
As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factory farming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167). If I pay my taxes during the Vietnam war, does this mean I am tacitly supporting the war?
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