Of Human and Non-Human Animals

Strategy posts Anti-vivisection strategy: a suggestion   Victory over vivisection on medical grounds will advance the ethical case   UK McDo...

The Sunday Times of 23th April 2006 reports about McDonald’s being in crisis in Britain. “McDonald’s faces a tough battle in the UK, having...

The common idea that non-human animals are guided mostly or exclusively by ‘instinct’ or conditioned reflexes has never convinced me. Grante...

We tend to define ‘emotive’ or ‘emotional’, especially as opposed to ‘rational’, as a state, or reason (in the sense of motive) characteriz...

Whether we want to gamble or like to gamble or not, life is a gigantic casino that forces us to constantly play a metaphorical poker. There ...

Vegetarianism and animal farming posts The Immorality of Eating Meat: Reflections on Engel's essay   Health benefits of vegetarian diet ...

I have read, as suggested by Animal Ethics , Mylan Engel's essay "The Immorality of Eating Meat". This is what it made me thin...

The idea that one should not have a point of view when writing is fallacious. This is an idea frequently encountered in the old and new medi...

Contractarianism is a moral theory saying that moral rules are a sort of a contract, and therefore only beings who can understand the terms...

Other posts Animal-movement political parties   A point of view is inevitable. And desirable too   Casino, poker, gambling   Theory of cheap...