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Big Ears Bites Back!
Jerry Goodenough explains why he isn’t a vegetarian.
Liz Mabbott’s article ‘Big Ears, Meat and Morals’ (Philosophy Now, Autumn 1994) raises a number of thought-provoking questions both for those of us with larger ears and for those of us who eat or use animal products. She does a great service in distinguishing clearly those arguments for vegetarianism which rest upon animal-centred considerations from those which argue that vegetarianism is better for humans. But I believe that Liz is wrong to think that vegetarians are in error in concentrating upon the latter. Rather it is the case that philosophical proponents of vegetarianism are driven to this by the failure of animal-centred arguments alone to achieve their goal. Even the two sets of arguments together may not constitute a watertight case for vegetarianism.
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