Abstract:

This paper formulates and defends a version of moral vegetarianism. Since eating animals is not causally connected to their death, I begin with analyzing the moral status of consumer actions that do not, taken on their own, harm animals . I then formulate a version of moral vegetarianism. Three different opponents of moral vegetarianism are then distinguished and criticized. I then take up the argument according to which eating animals benefits them. I close with the question of the desirability of collective vegetarianism from the point of view of animals.

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Cover Date: 2004.Source Info: 13(4), 1-27. Language: English. Journal Announcement: 46-1. Subject: ANIMAL; ETHICS; FOOD; KILLING; MORALITY; PAIN; PLEASURE; VEGETARIANISM. Update Code: 20150211.