ABSTRACT

If you are like the vast majority of people, you eat, wear, and otherwise use products made from or by nonhuman animals (hereinafter animals). Like most aspects of human life, these actions have an ethical dimension: We can ask what principles ought to guide our interactions with animals, and what implications those principles have for our use of animal products. Ethical vegans accept a radical view of our relations to animals: They claim that it is (at least ordinarily) wrong to eat or otherwise use animal products.