Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies. Scott Plous Middletown, Conn.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being?

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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. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason.

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