Ethics in Religion Commons^™

To Be Or Not To Be A Vegetarian, Laura Stivers

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Teaching Goals:

• To explore personal integrity in environmental ethics.
• To understand the connection between environmental destruction and meat eating.
• To explore attitudes towards nature and nonhuman animals and the interconnections with attitudes towards various human animals.
• To explore the differences between individual and holistic ecocentrism.
• To explore how theology informs the question of whether to be vegetarian.