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Rolston claims that we routinely enact policies that lead to people’s death, so we sometimes actually are permissive of actions that cause preventable deaths.

The IPCC produced the first scientific results that showed a connection between CO2 and changes in climate. 

Chickens are much more “efficient” at producing meat than cows, from an energy perspective.

“Teleological” means “from the hand of God.”

According to Houdequin, it is irrational (and not virtuous) to fight for a cause you know you is futile (or will not be successful). 

Lauden claims that, historically speaking, many people turned away from “natural” food and viewed it as something reserved for the poor.

According to Lauden, city dwellers have typically eaten better than their rural counterparts.

Laudan argues that we should turn away from industrialized food and become “culinary luddites.”

Naess’s Self-realization is a personal examination of one’s own self-being (or ego).

Virtue ethics is concerned with which of the following: