A Utilitarian Argument for Vegetarianism
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A Utilitarian Argument for Vegetarianism
Although supporters of vegetarianism (and animals' interests in general) come in many varieties, we may distinguish two groups. First, utilitarians such as Singer base their argument on the suffering that factory farming causes to nonhumans and the absence of comparable benefits to humans. l Second, the animal rights view, as expressed by Regan, extends Kant's respect for persons principle to i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Between the Species: An Online Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1945-8487
DOI: 10.15368/bts.1995v11n1.1