Eating meat and eating people

Abstract

\textlessp\textgreater This paper is a response to a certain sort of argument defending the rights of animals. Part I is a brief explanation of the background and of the sort of argument I want to reject; Part II is an attempt to characterize those arguments: they contain fundamental confusions about moral relations between people and people \textlessitalic\textgreaterand\textless/italic\textgreater between people and animals. And Part III is an indication of what I think can still be said on—as it were–the animals’ side. \textless/p\textgreater