Would the virtuous person eat animals? According to some ethicists, the answer is a
resounding no, at least for the virtuous person living in an affluent society. The virtuous …

With millions of animals brought into existence and raised for food every year, their negative
impact upon the environment and the staggering growth in the number of chronic diseases …

Many moral philosophers have criticized intensive animal farming because it can be harmful
to the environment, it causes pain and misery to a large number of animals, and furthermore …

Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has
generated three serious problems: first, intensive animal farming is one of the leading …

Is it morally permissible for people like us—denizens of the affluent Western world—to
purchase or eat meat? Conscientious omnivores believe so, provided that the meat is not …

I argue that many philosophical arguments for veganism underestimate what is at stake for
humans who give up eating animal products. By saying all that's at stake for humans is taste …

In this paper, I provide some evidence for the view that a common charge against those who
adopt vegetarianism is that they would be sentimental. I argue that this charge is pressed …

After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year
on factory farms. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college …

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 Kathryn Paxton George has recently argued that vegetarianism cannot be a moral
obligation for most human beings, even if Tom Regan is correct in arguing that humans and …