Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eating Animals, Agriculture And Agri-Food Canada, Zoonosis
20 Feb 2018
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Today: considering animals as consumable products & health test subjects, peter singer"s notion of animal personhood . Lappe"s protein theory: first published in 1971, it popularized health and ecologically-based vegetarianism in. North america: became something of the public consciousness, wrote a book called diet for a small planet, advocating on moral grounds for being a vegetarian. Her central thesis in the book is presented as dietary advice but also has a strong moral tone to it: p1: there is a scarcity of food in the world. Humans eat more than is necessary, just to gain muscles. Humans can eat the protein they feed the animals: p3: humans don"t need to eat animal proteins to be healthy we would be healthier if we are the non-meat proteins we feed chickens. We overfeed animals for the purpose to have the protein source we prefer. Meat is not necessary, and we do it based on preference: conclusion:
