Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Their ethological needs and direct interests are neglected to the extent that their needs are not as congruent with higher productivity and profit. Though factory-farming and biotechnological techniques massively violate the moral rights of farm animals, they have no remedy. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is a moral principle, and states that 'the interests of every being affected by an action are to be taken into account and given the same weight as the like interests of any other being'. According to Singer , the principle of the equal consideration of interests 'requires us to be vegetarians'.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

What these naysayers consistently neglect is that vegan diets, as with all other restricted diets, must be well planned. It’s appalling that anyone would think that a diet based on a dubious morality would build a human infant. It is not enough to simply cut animal products (or carbohydrates, or calories) out of one’s diet.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

There is a difficulty about drawing from all this a moral for ourselves. But then we can say this because we can say that all those are bad moralities, whereas we cannot look at our own moralities and declare them bad. This sympathy can be a basis for revising one's moral principles so as to take animals into account.

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