News: Ask the Experts: Gary Steiner, John Howard Harris Professor of Philosophy, discus... - 0 views
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If we really understand what it means for a being to have moral status, it's something that animals have a right to; they have a right not to be killed and eaten for food and used in a variety of other ways to satisfy human desires.
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I'm very extreme about this. Animals have just as much right not to be killed and eaten for food, or to be enslaved, as you or I have. That's what I mean when I say that humans and animals are morally equivalent.
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Veganism is a moral imperative; in my book I call it the vegan imperative.
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