En Revista Watt, agosto de 2011
«Meat is murder«, por Estefanía Lestanquet / Imágenes: Fernando Adorneti Revista Watt, 31 de agosto de 2011. Versión digital de la nota.
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Sap and Blood: “Combustible Matter” and “Enlightened Matter”
In Sap and Blood: Other Lives, Other Deaths of 2001 [1] my aim was to answer those who –claiming that plants could also “feel”– believed that it was morally acceptable to feed from non–humans since a killing would always be involved nevertheless. I stated that this comparison is incorrect but, should it be correct, the
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Sap and Blood: Other Lives, Other Deaths
Placing animal life on the same level as vegetable life is one of the excuses used by omnivores–carnivores to downplay the suffering and slaughtering of animals for food, in a sort of resignation to a damage that according to them is unavoidable in a human being doomed to the “natural” food chain. Their arguments are
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The matter of rights
Legally protected rights and interests Every right protects a particular interest. The legally granted right to protect such interest doesn’t depend on others beings able to benefit with the loss of that right. It means a barrier, a specific limitation in the actions of others, that only gives way in predetermined circumstances in which the
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