2022
DOI: 10.1007/s41055-022-00098-z
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New Omnivorism: a Novel Approach to Food and Animal Ethics

Abstract: New omnivorism is a term coined by Andy Lamey to refer to arguments that – paradoxically – our duties towards animals require us to eat some animal products. Lamey’s claim to have identified a new, distinctive position in food ethics is problematic, however, for some of his interlocutors are not new (e.g., Leslie Stephen in the nineteenth century), not distinctive (e.g., animal welfarists), and not obviously concerned with eating animals (e.g., plant neurobiologists). It is the aim of this paper to bolster Lam… Show more

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“…New omnivorists agree that animal suffering is morally significant and that factory-farm animals suffer greatly: we should not support factory farming, even humane farming. They go on to note, however, that animals also suffer in a variety of ways in plant agriculture: vegetarian diets are not harmless to animals (Milburn and Bobier, 2022). Insecticides, pesticides, land-clearing, damming and irrigation, transportation, salinity, soil erosion, tilling and harvesting, food safety testing on animals, fencing, non-poison pest control, and food storing all harm animals.…”
Section: A Third Dietary Option: New Omnivorismmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…New omnivorists agree that animal suffering is morally significant and that factory-farm animals suffer greatly: we should not support factory farming, even humane farming. They go on to note, however, that animals also suffer in a variety of ways in plant agriculture: vegetarian diets are not harmless to animals (Milburn and Bobier, 2022). Insecticides, pesticides, land-clearing, damming and irrigation, transportation, salinity, soil erosion, tilling and harvesting, food safety testing on animals, fencing, non-poison pest control, and food storing all harm animals.…”
Section: A Third Dietary Option: New Omnivorismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…New omnivorists are not done arguing, however. They use the observation that animals are harmed in producing and sustaining a vegetarian diet to argue that it is morally permissible or even obligatory to eat certain animals (Milburn & Bobier, 2022;Bobier, 2021). In other words, there is a third dietary option-a diet of plants and some non-traditional animal protein-that causes the least amount of harm to animals.…”
Section: A Third Dietary Option: New Omnivorismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Neither term is well-known or widely adopted ( 10 – 12 ). Yet, “oysters are considered (almost) fair game by plenty of animal ethicists,” some of whom are vegan, as potentially “morally preferable” to certain plant foods ( 13 ). There is no data at this time for how many Americans may be eating vegan diets that include some seafood.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Gruen and Jones, 2016). But this position is recently in decline in favour of what can be called 'conscientious carnivorism' (Scruton, 2004) or 'virtuous omnivorism' (Bobier, 2021) which advocates eating animal products from animal-friendly animal husbandry (Milburn and Bobier, 2022), a type of farming that aims at avoiding the adverse effects of industrial farming, above all: the harms to animals. Conscientious carnivorism is advocated as a practice that benefits the farm animals and some even claim that it is our duty to eat such produced meat since it favours the animals' welfare (Zangwill, 2021).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%