Milburn, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-8555 (2018) Death-free dairy? The ethics of clean milk. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 31 (2). pp. 261-279. ISSN 1187-7863
Abstract
The possibility of “clean milk”—dairy produced without the need for cows—has been championed by several charities, companies, and individuals. One can ask how those critical of the contemporary dairy industry, including especially vegans and others sympathetic to animal rights, should respond to this prospect. In this paper, I explore three kinds of challenges that such people may have to clean milk: first, that producing clean milk fails to respect animals; second, that humans should not consume dairy products; and third, that the creation of clean milk would affirm human superiority over cows. None of these challenges, I argue, gives us reason to reject clean milk. I thus conclude that the prospect is one that animal activists should both welcome and embrace.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Milk; Food technology; Biotechnology; Animal rights; Animal ethics; Veganism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2019 15:19 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2019 15:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10806-018-9723-x |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154671 |
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