'Animals do it too!': The Franklin defence of meat-eating

Journal of Moral Philosophy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-67

  Telfer, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61949147363     PISSN: 17404681     EISSN: 17455243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/174046810400100106     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography and Other Writings (ed. and intro. Kenneth Silverman; New York: Penguin Books, 1986 [1791-]), pp. 38-39
2. I have retained Franklin's emphases and spelling. This passage is quoted in part by Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (London: Jonathan Cape, 1976), p. 228
3. The source for this quotation is Henry Salt, Animals' Rights (London: Centaur Press, 1980 [1892]), p. 57
4. William Paley, The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (London: N. Hailes et al., 1824), p. 50
5. Quoted by Singer, Animal Liberation, p. 227
6. Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology (London: SCM Press, 1994)
7. Linzey, Animal Theology, p. 122
8. Isaiah 11.6-7
9. Paley, Principles, p. 51
10. S.R.L. Clark, The Moral Status of Animals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), p. 35
11. Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983), p. 351
12. Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, p. 357
13. On this topic see Paula Casal, 'Is Multiculturalism Bad for Animals?', The Journal of Political Philosophy 11 (2003), pp. 1-22