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Belgian City Goes Vegetarian Once a Week

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Last week, the City of Ghent in Belgium started eating vegetarian one day a week. Not only is there reason to believe that livestock contribute to greenhouse gases, but meat is resource-intensive to produce. Tags: climate global warming europe methane livestock vegetarian.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Or the vegetarian who still uses dairy?

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J. Baird Callicott on the Catastrophe of Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

From the ecological point of view, for human beings universally to become vegetarians is tantamount to a shift of trophic niche from omnivore with carnivorous preferences to herbivore. A vegetarian human population is therefore probably ecologically catastrophic. ( more than under present circumstances.

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On Scheduling Epiphanies. and Coral Snakes

Animal Person

I've also found that there are all kinds of activists and videos and concerts and demonstrations and books that I've never even heard of, that cause omnivores and vegetarians to go vegan. But we can be there, consistently, with an answer, an explanation, a resource, or a meal. We can't schedule the epiphanies of others.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Hi Keith, Here are some links to some exceptionally moving and informative online audio lectures on vegetarianism & animal ethics from a Christian perspective. If you would inform them of this resource, that'd be great. They are by Matt Halteman , an excellent philosopher from Calvin College.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Unlike birds, they do not vocalize; unlike butterflies, they are totally predatory, not a vegetarian amongst them. In addition to the Glossary, the Appendix includes a basic list of Dragonfly Publications and Resources, including regional field guides, listservs, organizations, web sites, and sources for collecting gear.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. First, it is dubious that becoming a vegetarian would have much effect on present practice. Vegetarianism is not obviously the best strategy, and its worth would have to be shown.