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Is a Vegan Diet Scalable? Animal EthicsUncategorized

Is a Vegan Diet Scalable?

I was recently contacted by a person inquiring about whether vegan diets are scalable. Given what I wrote about how expensive veggie burgers are, it is a legitimate question. If the Beyond Burger costs $3 for each patty, how is this realistic for most of…
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Steven C. McMullenJanuary 23, 2020
Property, Regulation, and Endangered Species Conservation Animal EthicsChapter

Property, Regulation, and Endangered Species Conservation

Today is the release date for The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Bob Fischer. I am pleased to have contributed a chapter to this excellent collection. Having written and spoken about species conservation a number of times, I think this chapter is the…
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Steven C. McMullenDecember 18, 2019
Why are Veggie Burgers so Expensive? Animal EthicsEthicsGeneral Economics

Why are Veggie Burgers so Expensive?

This is a big week for plant-based meat alternatives. The news of the Impossible Whopper is exciting for those of us who still love the idea of fast-food burgers. There is also the news that Beyond Meat is going public, which means that people will…
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Steven C. McMullenApril 5, 2019
Impossible Meat Explosion Animal EthicsEthics

Impossible Meat Explosion

A number of restaurants have recently adopted some new plant-based meat alternatives on their menus. The biggest one yet is the introduction of the "Impossible Whopper," a burger king experiment in which their classic whopper beef patty was replaced with the Impossible Burger, starting in…
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Steven C. McMullenApril 1, 2019

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  • Why are Veggie Burgers so Expensive? April 5, 2019
  • Review of The Politics of Virtue by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst July 13, 2017

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