Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Richard Posner, Middleground, Xenotransplantation
18 Apr 2016
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Before this was an odd idea, but now around 10 to 15 percent of university students are vegetarian. Considering animals as consumable products & health test subjects. Having a reason is ethical (vs. non- First published in 1971, it popularized health and ecologically-based vegetarianism in north america. Both dietary and moral imperative to the widespread in society mainly making a moral statement about this (saying you should do it, should be the normative). So, it is a dietary book, but mainly moral normative. Her central thesis in the book is presented as dietary advice but also has a strong moral tone to it: Part 1: there is a scarcity of food in the world 1st statement (others are saying it is about not being distributed evenly in the world; doesn"t reach to everyone in the world. Also, a lot of food is being wasted in north america, and we end up overeating unjust distribution).
