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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:

Deep ecology is a non-anthropocentric environmental ethic.

According to Leopold’s “Land Ethic,” a thing is right when it preserves all of the following characteristics of the biotic community, EXCEPT:

According to deep ecology, even non-living things, such as geological formations have innate value.

To start his paper, Varner discussed a childhood story where he killed something and was sad about it (and he wondered if he should have been sad).  What was it?