A note from Voices in Vegan Studies speaker series organizer, Professor Jonathan Dickstein, PhD on our upcoming Voices in Vegan Studies speaker series event on Monday, July 15 with Dr. Cheryl Abbate:

"Hi, I'm Jonathan Dickstein, professor at Arihanta Institute and lead organizer of the Vegan Studies Initiative. I'm here today to invite you to the next talk in the Voices in Vegan Studies speaker series. This talk, titled "New Ethical Issues in Contemporary Veganism," is with Dr. Cheryl Abbate from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I invited Dr. Abbate to talk about some of the more atypical issues in vegan studies, such as: What are the ethics of consuming animal products that one did not purchase oneself? Or the ethics of retrieving eggs from so called backyard chickens? Or what about the ethics of consuming arguably non-sentient organisms such as oysters, mussels, and insects. Join us!"

Info + registration:
voices.arihantainstitute.org

Cheryl Abbate is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who specializes in theoretical and applied ethics, especially animal ethics. She created and teaches UNLV’s first animal ethics course, which has a service-learning component. She has published over 30 academic pieces on the ethical treatment of animals, and her research can be found in leading philosophy journals, including Philosophical Studies, Utilitas, European Journal of Philosophy, Acta Analytica, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, the Journal of Social Philosophy, Social Epistemology, and Social Theory and Practice. She is also the co-editor of New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives (Routledge).

In her upcoming 7/15 Voice in Vegan Studies (ViVS) talk, Cheryl Abbate will defend a moral framework that enables us to answer these, and other related complicated questions about meat ethics, in a morally consistent way.

Info + registration:
voices.arihantainstitute.org

Let us know how you might answer these questions! We'd love to hear your thoughts leading up to this talk.

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