This essay originally appeared in The Chronicle of Higher education (by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff; reprinted with permission) Animals are "in." This might well be called the decade of the animal.

The contention was that choosing a vegan diet is an emotional response to the revelations of cruelty or climate or ecological collapse or personal health or whatnot. (Of course it can / ought to be ...

No we are not “moral animals,” we are moral humans, and there is a difference. We are a kind of animal, specifically we are primates, and share much with other social mammals. We are a particular kind ...

But I'm hoping to understand the underlying architecture of your concern. If there is a moral absolute argument that meat isn't to be consumed no matter what, then it doesn't matter what the facts are ...