Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

Last week, the City of Ghent in Belgium started eating vegetarian one day a week. Not only is there reason to believe that livestock contribute to greenhouse gases, but meat is resource-intensive to produce. Tags: climate global warming europe methane livestock vegetarian.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 21, 2008

From the ecological point of view, for human beings universally to become vegetarians is tantamount to a shift of trophic niche from omnivore with carnivorous preferences to herbivore. A vegetarian human population is therefore probably ecologically catastrophic. ( more than under present circumstances.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Or the vegetarian who still uses dairy?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 7, 2009

I've also found that there are all kinds of activists and videos and concerts and demonstrations and books that I've never even heard of, that cause omnivores and vegetarians to go vegan. But we can be there, consistently, with an answer, an explanation, a resource, or a meal. We can't schedule the epiphanies of others.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

There was no meaningful discussion about our inefficient use of resources (grain and water) in the feeding of animals to kill to feed people. And in the pre and post show (that I saw), even in the interviews with the celebrities who are known vegetarians (I know, I know, they're not vegans.),

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 22, 2007

Hi Keith, Here are some links to some exceptionally moving and informative online audio lectures on vegetarianism & animal ethics from a Christian perspective. If you would inform them of this resource, that'd be great. They are by Matt Halteman , an excellent philosopher from Calvin College.

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