Thanksgiving arrives every year with a heated debate over how to best cook that plump and juicy turkey. But the idea of a tofu turkey (also known as a “tofurkey”) has gone from a joke a couple years ago to a reality for many. While vegetarianism has been practiced for over a thousand years in some countries, it is a relatively new concept in the West. And so, with the question cropping up more and more often, should we eat meat?
Rutgers University School of Law
It is curious that I find myself partnered with PETA in this debate. There are significant differences between my approach and that of PETA. For example, PETA promotes ‘happy’ meat and welfarist reform. I disagree with this not only because I oppose all animal use irrespective of whether treatment is ‘humane’ (which it isn’t anyway) but because I think that welfarist reform is a profound failure in that it does not provide meaningful improvements in animal treatment and merely makes consumers feel more comfortable about continuing to exploit animals.
I provide below two essays from our website that concerns my views on PETA and the promotion of welfarist reform and a video presentation on animal rights vs. animal welfare.
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