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...Harvard Coop will be hosting a book signing by members of PETA to promote the organization’s new Vegan College Cookbook (complete with free food samples...
...Harvard Coop will be hosting a book signing by members of PETA to promote the organization’s new Vegan College Cookbook (complete with free food samples...
...Saturday, the Harvard Vegetarian Society hosted a debate over the morality of meat that pitted PETA representative Bruce Friedrich against a member of the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society. The well-attended debate centering on the ethics of meat-eating was robust and impressive, and the Harvard Vegetarian Society should be commended for holding an event that highlights an important issue for our campus and our society...
Hopkin and questioners from the audience rarely presented compelling reasons to dispute the main thrust of Friedrich’s well-supported argument. The PETA leader argued that facts overwhelmingly show that eating meat is bad for the environment, for the world's poorest, and for the conscious experiences of animals. Instead of disputing Friedrich's figures, Hopkin and others raised abstract intellectual questions heard in Social Studies 10 and “Justice”: How can we compare animal pain with human pain? And can animals be a part of the social contract...
...Saturday afternoon debate, organized by the Harvard College Vegetarian Society, featured a representative from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal. Students who were packed into a Science Center auditorium raised abstract objections founded in social contract theory to the PETA representative, instead of directly contesting the official’s arguments against eating meat. A heated exchange about the ethics of the food served by Harvard University Dining Services occurred between Bruce G. Friedrich, vice president of policy and government affairs for PETA, and Wesley N. Hopkin ’11, a member of the Harvard Speech...