Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service. Some suggestions are likely to be controversial with patients' groups, especially attempts to curb meat eating and car use. Tags: UK carbon emissions healthcare vegetarian meatless.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. 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. Second, it seems to assume that not eating meat is the best way to conserve grain.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The food is great (our group enjoyed a fantastic vegetarian gourmet repast at the Casa Botania as well as wonderful meals at the Cascatata del Bosco ), there are some cozy places to stay in fine habitat (the same two places just mentioned), and the climate is pretty much perfect at this 1,000 meter elevation.

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Costa Rica West Virginia Birds Vegetarian 100

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2009

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Superior Aliens’ Invasion John Harris advances the following consideration to show the immorality of eating meat. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Here’s another self-interested reason to not eat meat: Drug-resistant bacteria are routinely found in beef, chicken, and pork sold in supermarkets. To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. The problem is not new.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

Interviewer: "Are you a vegetarian?". And no amount of donations to groups that supposedly want to abolish animal cruelty is going to make up for the fact that until you stop having animals killed for you you are part of the problem. The commentator says that part of her winnings will go to abolish animal cruelty (yes, abolish).

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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