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RIPPING APART THE OMNIVORE'S ARGUMENT1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2014
Abstract
People often say that humans are omnivores in order to justify eating meat as normal and veganism as abnormal. The ‘Omnivore's Argument’ is one of the arguments that vegetarians and vegans encounter when meat-eaters try to defend the moral acceptability of body parts on their plate. When responding to this argument, the position of the vegan is similar to the atheist who time and again is confronted with the same fallacious arguments in support of the existence of god(s). Veganism and atheism are both ethical default positions. Similarly, not killing other people is also a default position.
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1 Thanks to Erroll Treslan and Annemarieke Otten for comments.