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PETA Goes After The Overweight

Critter News

PETA put up a billboard in Florida that says "Save the Whales, Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian". If they want to play up the health aspects or weight loss aspects of vegetarianism, that's fine. But, when they start throwing around words like "whale" and "blubber", they're guaranteed to lose their potential audience on that one.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer.

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