Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

They believe you can take a life that doesn't want to be taken in a humane way, and I don't agree. The voice of Temple Grandin is of course the foundation. And when that happens, you know what direction you're headed: the justification of taking the lives of sentient nonhumans to please the palates of humans.

Slaughter 100

Slaughter Slaughtered Cows Meat 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. The question is, of course, whether animals do have a right to life. KBJ: Martin forgot about the human beings who lack a right to life, including infants. The subject is a large and controversial one.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Suffering Killing 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

Factory Farm 40

Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Inhumane 40