On Mon, 3 Oct 1994, Gene Hunn wrote:
To equate meat eating with wife beating and rape is, in my opinion, to
subscribe to the same sort of moral extremism that leads "pro-lifers" to
call first trimester abortions "murder" and to label fertilized eggs
"babies." As I said before, to consider mea
On Fri, 30 Sept. 1994, Gene Hunn wrote:
Even the flames may have something to teach us.
Gene.
On Thu, 29 Sep 1994, anne jordan dashiell wrote:
> allright allright..im sorry i was so insulting in that last post. it just
> made me really mad . i have a short temper. -anne
>
On Tue, 27 Sept. 1994, Gene Hunn wrote:
Hi,
I'm no expert on human anatomy etc., but it is clear that humans lack the
highly specialized grinding teeth & associated muscles of, say, gorillas,
nor do we have gizzards or four stomachs. Our teeth, at least, would
appear rather unspecialized. I
On Tuesday, 27 Sept. 1994, Gene Hunn wrote:
We recognize the pig's pain because it is expressed in ways very similar
to our own way of expressing pain; plants may feel pain, say as the
chainsaw rips into their cambium layers... or as their fruits (plant
fetuses?) are plucked from their branche
Brian et al.,
The difference between a pig and a carrot is in part due to the fact that
we judge the pig more like us and therefore more deserving of moral
consideration as a sort of quasi-human. But where does one draw the
line? At fowl, fish, crabs, clams... eggs, milk... ? As for a way
Hi,
My name is Gene Hunn, dept. of anthro, U of Washington, Seattle and I've
been listening with interest. I'm an environmentalist but also a student
of human subsistence across time & space. Humans are not by
physiological adaptation vegetarians, nor carnivores for that matter, but
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