Tag Archives: animal welfare

more thoughts on veganism and well-being

I was thrilled to receive this thought­ful com­ment on my last post on my vegan exper­i­ment: Com­ment from abeala I have some dis­jointed things to say in response. First of all, yes, it can def­i­nitely be dif­fi­cult to have a sig­nif­i­cant other who does not eat the same way as you. Around the time I …

November 3, 2009 – 9:05 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, ethics, food & eating, virtue ethics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

why I became vegan

Here’s the sec­ond in a series of posts on veg­e­tar­i­an­ism & ani­mal wel­fare. If you spend any time at all in the veg*n (veg­e­tar­ian and/or vegan) areas of the inter­net (web­sites, blogs, mes­sage boards), you learn the ide­o­log­i­cal ter­ri­tory pretty quickly. For peo­ple who rec­og­nize and take seri­ously the eth­i­cal prob­lems sur­round­ing food ani­mal pro­duc­tion, …

September 5, 2009 – 11:14 pm | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, ethics, food & eating | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

how I semi-accidentally became vegetarian

Ani­mal wel­fare issues are really impor­tant to me, but some­how they have failed to make an appear­ance here so far. Allow me to rec­tify the sit­u­a­tion. This is part 1 of a few posts on my adven­tures in plant-based eat­ing. Flash back to fall 2007. It was my first semes­ter in grad­u­ate school. I was …

August 26, 2009 – 9:33 am | By pamela j. stubbart | Posted in applied ethics, ethics, food & eating, moral psychology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)