Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

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? Niman’s ranch and others using comparable methods? How many people would be able to afford the price?

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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.

Vegetarian 40

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40