In Western societies, with increasingly salient mediation processes, eating, too, has become
an entanglement of offline and online practices. Food as carrier of values has never merely …

Bioethicists often defend novel practices by drawing analogies with practices that we are
already familiar with and currently tolerate. If some novel practice is less bad than some …

Just as one line appears to be longer than another in an optical illusion, we can have a
spontaneous moral judgment that one individual is more important than another. Sometimes …

The relationship between humans and non-human animals has received considerable
attention recently. Animal advocates insist that non-human animals must be included in the …

Much has been written about the ethics of eating meat. Far less has been said about the
ethics of serving meat. In this paper I argue that we often shouldn't serve meat, even if it is …

Timothy Hsiao defends industrial animal agriculture (hereafter, factory farming) from the
“strongest version of the cruelty objection”(J Agric Environ Ethics 30 (1): 37–54, 2017). The …

Timothy Hsiao attempts to defend industrial animal farming by arguing that it is not inherently
cruel. We raise three main objections to his defense. First, his argument rests on a …

There is growing impetus for social work to move beyond a human-centric social justice
orientation to include the consideration of animals. Social work programs in Australia are …

In an earlier paper, I defended the moral permissibility of eating meat against sentience-
based arguments for moral vegetarianism. The crux of my argument was that sentience is …

Abstract David DeGrazia (2009) and Stuart Rachels (2011), among others, offer moral
arguments in favor of adopting a vegetarian diet that have, they claim, broad appeal. Rather …