Friday, September 26, 2025

Assignment #2: Gruen, chapters 3-4

Read: Gruen: Ch 3-4.

Supplemental: 

1. Alistair Norcross: "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases"

2. G. Francione, "The Abolitionist Approach"

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/veganism-moral-imperative/

3. Brief video from Francione:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRnndqucOX0

4. Read, also, this brief article on meat-eating and COVID:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/26/what-we-choose-eat-has-everything-do-pandemic-and-next-one

5. Video (Tyler Dogget; ethics professor from U. of Vermont):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAMk_ZYO7g

6. Ed Winters, Arguments against Veganism

7. Cohen's defense of animal experimentation:

Microsoft Word - The Case for th… of Animals.doc

Summary and response to Cohen:

hettingern.people.charleston.edu/Environmental_Ethics/Cohen_Defense_of_Animal_Experimentation.htm

8. American Anti-vivisection Society:
http://aavs.org/

9. National Anti-vivisection Society:
https://www.navs.org/who-we-are/mission/#.WpRH4q6nHIU