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Philosophy professor asks: ‘If peas can talk, should we eat them?’

_{Joe Newby
May 2, 2012
Human Exceptionalism} _{Original Article}

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Good Grief: Now It's PEA Personhood!

Just when you thought things could not get any weirder: Last Sunday, The New York Times — of course! — ran a piece in its Sunday opinion section by a university professor — of course! — claiming that it is unethical to eat certain plants. According to Michael Marder, recent discoveries show …

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Evolution, Human Dignity, and Crafting Public Policy

This article, published in Crisis Magazine, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: In “The Bioethics Threat to Universal Human Rights” (Human Life Review, Winter/Spring 2011) Wesley Smith paints a sobering picture of where our modern world appears to be headed, as human …

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