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By: The Mystery of the Disappearing Ethics « Learning from Dogs

The Mystery of the Disappearing Ethics « Learning from Dogs — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:04:46 +0000

[...] again, the left hand doesn’t know or care what the right hand is doing. A British minister tells us to stop eating meat to save the world while British banks simultaneously rush to finance a humongously-profligate and [...]

By: Chris SNUGGS

Chris SNUGGS — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:24:02 +0000

Quite right – where does the government’s “right” to nanny us start and stop? Personally, I feel that if adults want to smoke knowing it is extremely bad and will kill them then they have to right do do so.

They are stupid, but people have a right to be stupid ONCE they are adults. Smoking has now in Europe been banned in public places, and rightly so. Smokers have the right to kill themselves, but not other people.

However, with GW we are taling about the survival of the planet. IF (a big if) this is what it takes, then my right to die knowing that my son won’t freeze, fry or be murdered as GW trips in SUPERSEDES the meat-eaters’ rights.

By: thoughtbasket

thoughtbasket — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:27:32 +0000

Your post reminds me of the government’s actions regarding cigarette smoking. Here in the US there is massive government spending on TV ads encouraging people to quit an unhealthy habit. But if it’s so unhealthy, why not just ban it? Of course, there are many reasons not to, but it brings up the broader question: what level of government action is the right level when it comes to unhealthy behavior?

And I agree with Patrice’s comment above. There is a way to raise animals that is not so environmentally damaging. Unfortunately it is also not so efficient, and would certainly raise the cost of beef dramatically.

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:12:36 +0000

Animals are natural, eating animals is natural. Intensive agriculture is not natural at all.

Serious studies show that herding can be much more correct than phosphate based intense agriculture, which can be outright deleterious to the environment on a never seen before scale.

Solution: farm in special buildings (see latest Scientific American).

OK, I shall go devour something, for relaxation…