New Ethical Issues in Contemporary Veganism

New Ethical Issues in Contemporary Veganism with Cheryl Abbate, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Animal ethicists have long argued that farming land animals (e.g, pigs, cows, and chickens) and, more recently, fish for food is wrong. But complicated ethical questions remain about the consumption of these and other kinds of animals (and animal by-products). Is it, for instance, permissible to eat a chicken sandwich found in a dumpster? Is it permissible to eat roadkill? What about animals that seem to be insentient, such as oysters, mussels, and scallops? What about the eggs from a chicken living in an animal sanctuary? In her talk, Abbate will defend a moral framework that enables us to answer these, and other related complicated questions about vegan ethics, in a morally consistent way.