Definitions of Freedom: Free Animals
Also known as veganism, the free animals portion of Definitions of Freedom has definite notice now a days. A lot of intelligent people are talking about it. I have a lot of passion about veganism, so I will come off bias, most likely like my other videos..
Definition
(Mainly from wiki) Veganism encourages both the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. I will add my own addition to this to say use the term "consenting" animals, where the only case I see would be breast feeding for humans. In adidition, eating animal and animal products beyond necessity. While I will cover the "Have To" argument in a later post, necessity has a large implication to the word so let us question this carefully.
People
- Gary Francione
- Peter Singer
- What about the Veganarchist...? Next Post!
Books & Resources
- Earthlings
- Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach by Gary Francione
- Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement by Peter Singer
- START HERE-----> Veganism: Moral Imperative By Gary Francione
- Sam Harris talking about Veganism
- Peter Singers
- Forks Over Knife*
- Conspiracy*
*I do not attempt to argue that veganism has baring on "global warming" or "climate control" and on nurtient. In my personal experience, I had no troubles switching from a omnivorious diet to a vegan diet within month, with a couple of "regressions."
Range of Commitment
- Omnivore: No restrictions between animals and plants
- Vegetarian: No meat
- Vegan: No meat,eggs, diary, honey, (or taxation...? Follow me to see what I mean!)
Lots of lines between all of these. Raw vegans and even carnivores.
A new thought
I'm realizing the Aristotelian aspect of Gary Francione's argument, which I still find valid. See my old post called Ayn Rand's Subjectivist Baby. I find it interesting where some philosophers find "A or Not-A" arguments acceptable or not. Let us not be hard on radicals for being radicals, instead just have awareness to possible dogma thinking; that our egos HATE to have questions (perhaps another video here as well.).
Thank You!
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