At 02:27 PM 3/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>The substitutes could come not just from vegetable protein and soy, but
>>also free-range eggs and possibly dairy products produced in a
>>compassionate system. With this addition, I think there is no doubt that
>>perfectly adequate nutrition could be guaranteed.
>
>I agree with you here Chris. But just to play devil's advocate, there will
>always be people who will say, "But I just want to eat animal carcasses.
>And I have a right to." And I'm not real sure what to say to such people.
>I certainly don't think that outlawing the murder and consumption of animals
>will ever be realistic, unless, of course, it will be.
>
>Bryan H.
>
The traditional response is to remind you that it is only a century or so
since people were saying "But I just want to keep slaves. And I have a
right to." And only a few years since they were saying "But I just want to
beat my children. And I have a right to." Both of these practices are now
illegal in several civilised countries.
Our job on this list surely has to be to lay the ethical foundations; the
laws may follow swiftly, or they may only be enacted after a long and nard
struggle. Or, I suppose, they may never follow. But that's a topic for
"enviropolitics", not "enviroethics", isn't it?
Chris
Chris Hope, Judge Institute of Management Studies,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK.
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