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On "Home"

Animal Person

The cinematography did present a bit of a problem for me in that I often had difficulties with scale--I didn't know how wide or large things were, and though it might not necessary to know, I like to nonetheless. As I've written previously, I never pushed him to go vegan, and now that he is I don't push him to do any vegan education.

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On "Imposing" Our Beliefs on Our Children

Animal Person

But what I do is "imposing" or "forcing" veganism and atheism on my child. We were presented with animals to eat and wear. We were presented with animal bodies to celebrate over at holidays. When my husband and I first adopted Baby Sky, several friends and relatives asked, "are you going to make her be a vegan?

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is a general consensus that vegetarianism and veganism are different philosophically. That means, political campaigns must incorporate the following aspects: Centre your campaign material on presenting suffering and stimulate compassion and empathy in people. How about this? I don't think it's one or the other. What do you think?

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Consequently, one ought not to eat meat until actual practice is changed. The question that must be raised, however, is how the conclusion not to eat meat follows from this. One argument is this: The present practice of treating animals used for food is immoral and should be changed. Consequently, one ought not to eat meat.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

For example, we will not claim that Martin is opposed to moral vegetarianism because he likes to eat meat without a guilty conscience. Indeed, two well-known moral and social philosophers, Robert Nozick and Peter Singer, have recently advocated not eating meat on moral grounds. KBJ: There are different reasons to abstain from meat.