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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

The New York Times ' Nicholas D. The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?) I suppose speciesism/human exceptionalism is at the heart of the matter. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. I'm on my way.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

This was two years after Robert Nozick discussed the moral status of nonhuman animals in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974) and one year after Peter Singer published Animal Liberation (New York: Avon Books, 1975). Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

I went back to New York to the areas where I grew up and went to college and graduate school for a five-day weekend. We do that with cats and dogs already, right? Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism. I'd been longing for NYC and, as usual, thinking about moving back.

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