According To The Dominant Western

In Some Parts Of The World, What You Are Doing Is Already Apparent.according To The World Health Organization, The Warming Of The Planet Caused An Additional 140,000 Deaths In 2004, As Compared With The Number Of Deaths There Would Have Been Had Average Global Temperatures Remained As They Were During The Period 1961 To 1990. This Means That Climate Change Is Already Causing, Every Week, As Many Deaths As Occured In The Terrorist Attacks On September 11, 2001.

We Ought To Consider The Interests Of Animals Because They Have Interests And It Is Unjustifiable To Exclude Them From The Sphere Of Moral Concern; To Make This Consideration Depend On Beneficial Consequences For Human Beings Is To Accept The Implication That The Interests Of Animals Do Not Warrant Consideration For Their Own Sakes.

It Would Be Nonsense To Say That It Was Not In The Interests Of A Stone To Be Kicked Along The Road...a Stone Has No Interests Because It Cannot Suffer. The Capacity For Suffering And Enjoyment Is, However, Not Only Necessary, But Also Sufficient For Us To Say That A Being Has Interests - At An Absolute Minimum, An Interest In Not Suffering. A Mouse, For Example, Does Have An Interest In Not Being Kicked Along The Road Because It Will Suffer If It Is.

We Don't Usually Think Of What We Eat As A Matter Of Ethics. Stealing, Lying, Hurting People - These Acts Are Obviously Relevant To Our Moral Character. In Ancient Greece And Rome, Ethical Choices About Food Were Considered At Least As Significant As Ethical Choices About Sex.

Knowing That We Can Control Our Own Behaviour Makes It More Likely That We Will.