“Cruelty plays a fundamental role in the vegetarian’s argument inasmuch as the principal reason the vegetarian does not want to eat meat is that she does not want to kill animals or cause them to suffer. The vegetarian sees cruelty in purely negative terms; she believes that its complete eradication is a realistic goal that…
Humans Don’t Have a Special Status in The Living World: Ethical Vegetarianism/Veganism, Human Exceptionalism & Radical Politics
