Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. Seriously, folks, if you are going to respect someone, you're not going to hold them captive and kill them. It involves not killing them. Potent if symbolic? Not eating them.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

He doesn’t recognize the public health and ecological harms caused by industrial food animal production methods, including increased antibiotic resistance, polluted drinking water, huge fish kills and impaired air quality leading to respiratory illness. We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens?

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