The freegan challenge to veganism

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There is a surprising consensus among vegan philosophers that freeganism — eating animal-based foods going to waste — is permissible. Some ethicists even argue that vegans should be freegans. In this paper, we offer a novel challenge to freeganism drawing upon Donaldson and Kymlicka’s ‘zoopolitical’ approach, which supports ‘restricted freeganism’. On this position, it’s prima facie wrong to eat the corpses of domesticated animals, as they are members of a mixed human-animal community, ruling out many freegan practices. This exploration reveals how the ‘political turn’ in animal ethics can offer fertile lenses through which to consider ethical puzzles about eating animals.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Milburn, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-8555 Fischer, B.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords:	Veganism; vegetarianism; freeganism; Zoopolis; animal ethics; food ethics
Dates:	Published: June 2021 Published (online): 5 June 2021 Accepted: 8 May 2021
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number British Academy PF19\100101
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	20 May 2021 10:18
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2021 12:56
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer Nature
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1007/s10806-021-09859-y
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:174007

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