Synonyms Omnivorism Introduction Meat eating has been the norm in most human societies. Historically, it has not had many defenders, but this is probably because few thought that it was in need of defense. In the contemporary philosophical literature, however, the pro-vegetarian arguments are ...
Introduction Meat eating has been the norm in most human societies. Historically, it has not had many defenders, but this is probably because few thought that it was in need of defense. In the contemporary philosophical literature, however, the pro-vegetarian arguments are usually taken to be q...
If Western diets containing a lot of animal proteins spread over the globe during the next forty years, the consequences will be catastrophic, particularly for poorer countries. The ethical and political discussions about (reducing) meat consumption are characterised by a paradox: contrary to the imp...
The flimsy arguments for the importance of wildlife tourism only become flimsier when you dive deeper.Research on trophy hunting in Africahas not only found that a very small percentage of profits end up in the hands of local communities, but that big game (lions, elephants, etc.) isn’t ...
In Chapter 2, he talked about Chinese Buddhism vegetarianism. At first, according the Chinese sources, the writer represented the Indian view on meat eating and gave the answer to why the Buddhists should not eat meat. Then, he concluded 4 factors which contributed to form the Chinese vegetari...
These are powerful arguments to demand new legislation to protect dogs from all harm and exploitation. To find out whether there was a limit to the number of words a border collie could learn, psychologistsAlliston Reidand John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, started an...
recommendations. To produce the best arguments (EC2), the system should also access data related to the moral, ethical, and legal principles of the user and other participants. To deliver personalized care, user data is essential for the IAT (EC3), and finally, persuasion (EC4) cannot be ...
Mark Bryant Budolfson, “The Inefficacy Objection to Consequentialism and the Problem with the Expected Consequences Response,”Philosophical Studies, forthcoming; Ted A. Warfield, “Eating Dead Animals: Meat Eating, Meat Purchasing, and Proving Too Much,” inPhilosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments Abo...
meat eating led him to adoptvegetarianism. While at Oxford and during a visiting professorship atNew York Universityin 1973–74, he wrote what would become his best-known and most influential work,Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals(1975). Returning to Australia, he ...