Food Fight! Davis versus Regan on the Ethics of Eating Beef torrent

This is an academic article on the morality of eating meat in pdf.

Author: Andy Lamey

Abstract: One of the starting assumptions of the debate over the ethical status of
animals is that someone who is committed to reducing animal suffering should not
eat meat. Peter Singer, Tom Regan and other philosophers associated with the
so-called animal rights movement—which is probably better referred to as the
animal protection movement, given that not all of its adherents employ a theory of
rights—have advocated vegetarianism and veganism as the dietary embodiments
of their philosophies. On the other side of the debate, philosophers who have
challenged animal protection often argue that animals occupy a minimal to nonexistent moral status, and go on to invoke this as a premise in a defense of
meat-eating. Despite the disagreements between the two camps, both take it for
granted that the philosophy of animal protection and the practice of avoiding meat
rise and fall together.

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