"The Naive Argument against Moral Vegetarianism"

Alward, Peter. “The Naive Argument against Moral Vegetarianism.” Environmental Values 9, no. 1, (2000): 81–9. doi:10.3197/096327100129341985.

The naive argument against moral vegetarianism claims that if it is wrong for us to eat meat then it is wrong for lions and tigers to do so as well. I argue that the fact that such carnivores lack higher order mental states and need meat to survive do suffice to undermine the naive argument. (Source: The White Horse Press)

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