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The article in the issue 11:1:
The date of the publication:
2022-03-20
The number of pages:
43
The issue:
11:1
Commentaries:
0
The Authors
Rauf Sharpe, Martin Braddock, Ben Cahill, Ayşe Meriç Yazıcı, Jacob Haqq Misra, Michael Huemer,
Received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1998. He is presently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Skepticism and the Veil of Perception (2001), Ethical Intuitionism (2005), and more than forty academic articles in epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy.
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ARTICLE:
On Liberty and Cruelty: A Reply to Walter Block
autor: Michael Huemer,
A standard argument for ethical vegetarianism contends that factory farming – the source of nearly all animal products – is morally wrong due to its extreme cruelty, and that it is wrong to buy products produced in an extremely immoral manner. This article defends this argument against objections based on appeal to libertarian political philosophy, the supposed benefit to animals of being raised for food, and nonhuman animals’ supposed lack of rights.
