Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan.
Animal Person
MAY 28, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I found The Goode Family disappointing on the vegan side. One complaint many of us have with "liberals" and "progressives" is that they tend to leave veganism and animal rights out of their sphere of concern. The Morality Of Food (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com). Yeah, lots of mockery, but I didn't laugh.
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Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
A third of a century ago, when the modern animal-liberation movement was in its infancy, Martin published an essay entitled “A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism,” Reason Papers (fall 1976): 13-43. You will, therefore, agree with Martin about moral vegetarianism but not about Christianity. Another reason is moral. One is health.
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos? Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. Just think of how much vegan education and animal care could be accomplished with the money in those large organizations " is what I would say to Parker.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Or vegan pumpkin pie. I especially like "justice" because it forces you to ask: "Is it morally right to enslave sentient nonhumans, rape them, take their babies and their lives on your own time and profit from them?" Why all the quotation marks?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
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.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
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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