caa a22 4500 469056460 CHVBK 20180323132845.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01966360 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01966360 Pluhar Evelyn Department of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, Fayette Campus, 15401, Uniontown, PA, USA aut Who can be morally obligated to be a vegetarian? [Elektronische Daten] [Evelyn Pluhar] Kathryn Paxton George has recently argued that vegetarianism cannot be a moral obligation for most human beings, even if Tom Regan is correct in arguing that humans and certain nonhuman animals are equally inherently valuable. She holds that Regan's "liberty principle” permits humans to kill and eat innocent others who have a right to life, provided that doing so prevents humans from being made worse off. George maintains that obstaining from meat and dairy products would in fact make most humans worse off. I argue that Regan's "liberty principle” either contradicts his "equal rights view” or does not permit the slaughter of another for food. I show that a different view recognizing the moral rights of nonhumans but according them less value than normal adult humans, "the unequal rights view”, would permit such action if human survival or health depended upon it. However, it would also permit the slaughter of innocent humans in the same circumstances. Finally, I argue that current nutritional research does not support George's contention that most humans would suffer if they ceased eating other animals and their products. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 1992 Equal rights view nationallicence liberty principle nationallicence nutrition nationallicence unequal rights view nationallicence vegetarianism nationallicence strict vegetarianism nationallicence Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1992-09-01), 189-215 1187-7863 5:2<189 1992 5 10806 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01966360 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01966360 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pluhar Evelyn Department of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University, Fayette Campus, 15401, Uniontown, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1992-09-01), 189-215 1187-7863 5:2<189 1992 5 10806 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer