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. 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. It's a cow who--who--lived an allegedly happy life. It is murder.

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. An argument of this type is in fact implicit in Benn’s position, and I will consider it presently. The Argument from Animal Rights A stronger argument is made by people who maintain that animals have rights.

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