Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products? We received an email about a new book being released by Lantern Books. In the author's words.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Hooked on Meat ,” by Mark Bittman (column, June 2): The other day, I asked the manager of our local chain grocery store why we were offered only Peruvian asparagus in the springtime. Why do we eat so much meat? Remember when fresh, locally grown asparagus would come in? Why eat produce that has no flavor?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The Argument from Brutalization The previous argument was based on an alleged indirect effect on human beings of not eating meat. It is argued that the killing and eating of meat indirectly tends to brutalize people. Thus the strong form of the argument seems to assume the truth of the following psychological generalization.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 2, 2007

Dear Keith, I work with Wesleyan University Professor Scott Plous (founder of Social Psychology Network), and I'm writing to let you know of a new web site related to animal protection. The site uses a unique interactive technology to offer "human-like" interviews that probe the ethical dimensions of diet and lifestyle choices.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. Second, it seems to assume that not eating meat is the best way to conserve grain. None of these assumptions seems plausible.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. We do not need meat, let alone pork, in order to live. But what about microorganisms?

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