Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
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. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. Second, it seems to assume that not eating meat is the best way to conserve grain.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 11, 2007
Americans do have a special relationship with horses, and how we treat them reveals much about our own humanity and how far we have evolved. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong. But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens.
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