Today I purchased some vegetarian burgers. Do they taste like meat? Eh, not so much. But consider Vic the Vegetarian. Vic is convinced that it is ethically wrong to eat meat, yet he loves the taste. And so he regularly eats vegetarian sausages and hamburgers. Is that wrong? More specifically, if Vic believes it is ethically […]
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On killing the dog
Walter asked for an argument against eating meat. Here it is. This is Sonny, a Lhasa-Apso cross. We adopted him several years ago from the Humane Society. Lucky for him. Things could have worked out very differently for the little guy. Imagine a different scenario in which the Humane Society is replaced with the Home […]
The Meat-Eater’s Dilemma Revisited
In “The Meat-Eater’s Dilemma” I explore the morality of people who have moral objections to the killing of animals for meat but who continue to eat meat nonetheless due to the willingness of others to kill the animals. I am one of the people that I place in this category so the dilemma is actually […]
The Meat-Eater’s Dilemma
I must say I’m surprised at the fact that many commenters on my article “Is it right to eat that which you wouldn’t kill?” did not address the central issue. That issue, our Meat-Eater’s Dilemma, can be summarized as follows: If Jones would refuse to participate in the slaughter of an animal so he can have […]
Bacon: the single greatest challenge for vegans
An exchange in the blog this morning on the morality of hunting brought me back to the problems with veganism and vegetarianism. Those problems can be summarized in one word: bacon. This comedy bit from my favorite comedian Jim Gaffigan illustrates the problem quite handily: I love Gaffigan’s work for three reasons. First, it is […]
An argument for Christian meatatarians to consider
Every couple months a church I know puts on a social event called “Men and Meat” where all the chaps in the church get together, consume copious amounts of meat and, er, beat their chests? The event reflects a troubling notion that masculinity is tantamount to a machismo that, among other things, is expressed in […]
