Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is a short history of thought on animal rights, ethics, and liberation. After watching the Netflix Documentary ‘You Are What You Eat’, I've been inspired to go beyond the health and environmental aspects of plant-based/vegan, and share information about animal ethics.

Here is the link to the video with my book recommendations on animal ethics.
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★ NOTE ON SOURCING IN CAPTIONS:
At the end of a sentence with sourcing, something like this will appear:
"The sky is blue. The ocean is blue (17,89)."
In this example, the 1st number represents the source # from the source list in this description. The 2nd number represents the page number, if the source is a book. If the numbers are separated by a semicolon ie (2;3), the numbers represent two different sources.

1. Humanistic Texts, al-Ma'arri
2. Museum of Lost Objects: The unacceptable poet. BBC.
3. Oxford Bibliographies, Al-Maʿarrī. 2019
4. Justice for Animals. Martha C. Nussbaum amzn.to/48Njwqd
5. Bhattacharya, S. (2020, December 9). In Bhutan, real citizens don’t eat meat. JSTOR Daily.
6. The Hidden History of Greco-Roman Vegetarianism
7. Aristotle’s Politics amzn.to/48tHR4z
8. Tom Regan. Animal Rights. Human Wrongs. amzn.to/3NYAtGe
9. Ruth Harrison 1964 ‘Animal Machines’ amzn.to/3RXMvAO
10. Our world in data. How many animals are factory-farmed? Hannah Ritchie 2023
11. Animal Liberation. 1975. Peter Singer amzn.to/3vq7DYU
12. Jonathan Foer in Eating Animals amzn.to/41WbUzB
13. @earthlinged, author of This is Vegan Propaganda amzn.to/3tMjBvD
14. Slaughterhouses: How are animals killed in a slaughterhouse
15. “Iowa slaughterhouses slated to..” Des Moines Register. 2020
16. “Prevalence of Stunning Methods…” Humane League. 2021.
17. Ruth Harrison. Animal Machines 1964 amzn.to/3HDkdHn
18. Taking Animals Seriously, 1996 Degrazia amzn.to/3tLKS1l
19. Fellow Creatures, 2018 Christine Korsgaard amzn.to/47DwaHx
20. Upton Sinclair The Jungle 1906 amzn.to/3vIp86Q
21. Photo, calf, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chov_telat_v_%C4%8CR.jpg cc4.0 Beny.rfg

00:00 - 1:44 - You Are What You Intro
1:45 - 3:30 - The First Vegan
3:31 - 7:58 - Western Animal Ethics
7:59 - 13:17 - Modern Animal Ethics
13:18 - 14:56 - Your List

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