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Should We Eat Meat?

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?

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Animals: Our Moral Schizophrenia

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Why did Prof. Francione call the article "We are all Michael Vick?" As a vegan, shouldn't he have called it "You are all Michael Vick?"

- heathu August 6, 2008 9:12PM

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Necessity not for me but for my cat

I am vegan because I do not have the necessity to eat meat and having free-will I can choose not to do so. But my cat is a carnivore and so I must buy meat to feed my cat. I know this is a contradiction and I wish I had a choice, but my cat's diet has to be 50% meat, because cats are among the most carnivorous of all the carnivores. I suppose I could argue that pet ownership should not have existed in the first place,but we must take care of the animals we have domesticated. I do not breed my cat. So, what should vegans do if they own carnivorous pets ? I cannot accept the argument that it may have been less cruel overall to put my cat down, than to feed it a cat's lifetime of chickens and fish, even if that is a logical argument- since so many animals suffer to sustain my one cat.

- sor666 August 31, 2009 10:12AM

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