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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 4 of 13

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For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. For example, if one could pick up shed animal legs in a pasture in which animals roam freely among their own kind, there might be no moral objection to eating the legs. They suggest that any simple moral vegetarianism is impossible.

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On "The Wild"

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Finally, people who object to our moral stance jump species and say we should object to the lion killing the gazelle. I do not pass judgment on other species, whose motives I cannot comprehend. Besides, we have choices. We can choose not to kill and eat someone we do not need to eat in order to survive.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

In each case, "rational man" had to rethink human identity ¯ his species identity common to all other humans, or rather, all those counted as "human" and as part of the valuer´s community. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language animal rights Culture Ecology Ethology speciesism The Left veganism.

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

Animal Person

None of this does justice to the earth, and our unique place in it as a species which has great privileges and also appropriate responsibilities. But the ease with which we can tell our stories and post our videos must not render us incapable of moral judgment and decency. What do you think?

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From Today's New York Times

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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. If the goal is not moral perfection for ourselves, but the maximum benefit for animals, half-measures ought to be encouraged and appreciated.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

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Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

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For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. Vegan vegetarians who eat only vegetables, fruit, and nuts do not completely remove all microorganisms from their food, even with repeated cleaning.

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