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Debating Meat VI: Future Meat
When I was a graduate student at Ohio State, one of the professors related a story about his discussion with a German philosopher. The discussion was about the ethics of eating meat and the German philosophy said that he had the perfect solution: science would give us headless cows that did not suffer.
Interestingly enough, while we have yet to [...]
Debating Meat V: Utility
One common approach to debating the ethics of meat is to argue within the context of utilitarianism.
Put is simple terms, for the utilitarian, an action is right if it creates more utility for the morally relevant beings than disutility. A key part of the debate for the utilitarians is the moral status of animals: are they morally [...]
Eating the Happy Dead
In my previous post I mentioned that reading an article in Newsweek entitled “Vegetarians Who Eat Meat”, got me thinking about two issues. The first is whether a person can be a vegetarian and also eat meat. The second is whether the way the meat animal is raised impacts the morality of eating it. I [...]
Vegetarians Who Eat Meat?
I recently ran across an article in Newsweek entitled “Vegetarians Who Eat Meat”, which got me thinking about two issues. The first is whether a person can be a vegetarian and also eat meat. The second is whether the way the meat animal is raised impacts the morality of eating it.
On the face of it, [...]
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