Please watch in class Tuesday; to logon to the computer in the classroom just hit 'enter' on the initial page: no password is needed:

Argument from Simmons:

1. Raising and killing animals to eat them harms animals (AND human beings).
2. It is not necessary to raise and kill animals to eat them: we can live happy and healthy lives without eating animals.
3. If an action causes harms that are not necessary, then that action is wrong.
4. Eating meat is wrong: it’s wrong to raise and kill animals to eat them.

A report we looked at today:
United Nations:

Livestock a major threat to environment

Remedies urgently needed

29 November 2006, Rome - Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars?

According to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. It is also a major source of land and water degradation.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html

It’s traditional.

All traditions are MP. F

Therefore, eating meat is morally permissible.

It’s necessary. F

Therefore, eating meat is morally permissible.

People make $ at it. T

Any way to make $ is MP.

Therefore, eating meat is morally permissible.

Animals provide protein. T

If x provides protein then it’s MP to eat X. F

Therefore, eating meat is morally permissible.

Animals taste good!                                                                     Eat animals produces pleasure.

Anything tastes good is MP to eat. F

Therefore, eating meat is morally permissible.

Some Animals eat other animals.  

Any action that animals do is permissible for us to do. /

If animals do X, then it’s permissible for us to do X. F

Therefore, our eating meat is morally permissible.

Final quiz:

When: next Tuesday, July 10, 12 PM, noon.

Covering:
Ch. 4 (religion and ethics; abortion), \
5 (egoism and poverty), and
7 & 8 (utilitarianism and euthanasia, drug use and the treatment of animals),
as well as all other readings, handouts and anything raised in class discussion or the notes.  Additional readings in include "One Nurses Story: What I had to do for my patient mac" and John Simmons' "Reasonable Humans and Animals")
You will also be asked to formulate arguments in logically valid form (e.g., adding unstated premises) and be able to explain whether arguments are sound or not.

There will be some extra credit questions on the chapters on Kant's ethics and the death penalty.
The detailed summaries or outlines of the two chapters on Kant are now extra credit.

All work needs to be submitted via Turnitin.com . See below.