pimg class=”alignright” title=”Moo, Cluck, Oink” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/animals.jpg” alt=”animals” width=”320″ height=”185″ /By now, you#8217;ve probably heard about the a title=”Calling All Carnivores” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/magazine/tell-us-why-its-ethical-to-eat-meat-a-contest.html?_r=1amp;ref=theethicist” target=”_blank”essay contest the NY Times is running/a. The prompt is #8220;Tell us why it#8217;s ethical to eat meat.#8221; To decide the winner or winners, they#8217;ve assembled a diverse mix of self-hating omnivores, self-hating sometimes-vegetarians, self-hating #8220;flexible vegans,#8221; and the guys with all those witty one-liners about food and grandmothers and #8220;mostly plants#8221; #8211; Michael Pollan, Jonathan Safran Foer, Peter Singer, Mark Bittman, and Andrew Light. A number of readers have asked me to chime in on the subject and I agreed to it, albeit somewhat reluctantly. After all, why does the burden of proof rest on us, the physiologically omnivorous hominids who are simply eating the foods we#8217;ve been eating for millions of years? But then I realized it might be a fun thing to write, to play around […]
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