Tyler Cowen: Market Failure for the Treatment of Animals (DOC)

I examine the welfare economics of how humans treat animals, using ordinal welfare economics and the standard of willingness to pay. I therefore assume that animals count in the social welfare function only insofar as human animal lovers care about them. I do not defend ( Read more... )

Don Boudreaux dispels the myth that poor and ignorant people live more harmoniously with nature than modern wealthy people do.

To live harmoniously with nature is to understand and accept natural forces. The greater this understanding and acceptance, the greater the harmony. Because we know so much more today than we did before about ( Read more... )

Bowel Buddy Bran Wafers

Vegetarians! (Who are vegetarian from an animal welfare point of view, not human health.)

Do you consider it immoral to eat the currently available fake meat tofu-based products?

Would you consider it immoral to eat a fake meat that was chemically identical to animal-based meat, but was grown in a laboratory vat?

This technology will soon be ( Read more... )

Richard linked me to How To Be Emo - Directed by Christian Bretz, one of the funniest movies I've seen.

Andrew Moroz links to The Credit Card Prank II. I laughed until I cried.

Last night, I dreamed that my left arm was empty with a hole on the inside of my elbow. (It was similar to Requiem, now that I think of it.) But I could still use the arm, and actually I didn't even notice. Then my mom asked, "What the hell is wrong with your arm?" So, I looked at it and was like, "*expletive deleted*." It then occurred to me that ( Read more... )

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fcuk_in_heels went around saying how they saw me talking to holla_a_moi and dissing on oh_devious.

This entry automatically generated by the LJ Drama Generator!

Richard linked me to winterspeak, who does not trust libertarians, because of Will Wilkinson.

I have a libertarian buddy who is one of the more rational, clear-thinking, and honest people I have met. He keeps his word. He speaks his mind. He is always always reasonable.

I don't trust him.

The reason is outlined in this ( Read more... )