Vegetarianism
Jan. 18th, 2007 09:17 amHere is an extremely interesting article about the history of the arguments underpinning vegetarianism:
Vegetarianism has always been less about why you should eat plants than about why you shouldn’t eat animals. And so arguments about vegetarianism, by drawing attention to rights that we claim for ourselves but deny to other animals, inevitably involve basic questions about what it is to be human.