Oanijah J. Adkins
DeVry University
Woodard, W. (2010). Persian sheep, hawksbill turtles and vodsels: The ethics of eating in some contemporary narratives. In W. Woodard (Ed.), Australia: Australian Literary Studies. http://www.devry.library.edu/Ebsco host
The essay is presented on how different novelists represented eating animals in their own short essays. One story is a depiction on the ethics of importing animals for slaughtering by presenting the functional story of Professor David Lurie. Professor Lurie forced himself to eat sheep meat just to accept another person’s cultural belief. The common way of drawing a conceptual line between human and animal is represented repeatedly.
The essay indicates humans’ behavior towards nonhuman animals. I will explain how factory farmers treat their livestock compared to non-factory farmers. I plan on bringing forth humans moral responsibilities to nonhuman animals.
Marcus, E. (2001). Vegan: The new ethics of eating. (2nd Ed.). Ithaca, NY: McBooks Press. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books/about/Vegan In the book Vegan: The new ethics of eating, Erik Marcus argues that a vegan diet is by far the healthiest, linking meat consumption to heart disease, cancer and obesity. Marcus …show more content…
Nor, can they talk? But, Can they suffer?’ The point is well taken, for surely if animals suffer, they are legitimate objects of our moral concern. It is curious therefore, given the current interest in the moral status of animals, that Bentham's question has been assumed to be merely rhetorical. In this paper he suggest that the issue of animal pain is not so easily dispensed with, and that the evidence brought forward to demonstrate that animals feel pain is far from