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Ethics of Student Choice – DePauw’s “New” Meal Plan
Taking into account recent emails and updates from DePauw Administration in regards to the student meal plan, students have begun to voice concerns not only about the meal plan changes, but also about the fact that the student body was not consulted about these changes that affect them so directly. Their concerns highlight not only …
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Plant-Based Meat Substitutes, Sensational Reporting, and Information Literacy
The media’s treatment of recent plant-based meat rollouts fails to give the significant moral gains their due.
The Prindle Post’s Greatest Hits 2015
We’ll be taking a short break for the holidays, but we’ll return the first week in January with more engaging ethics content. Until we see you again, take a look at our list of popular posts and catch up on articles you might have missed this year. “Resilience, an ideal that hurts more than it …
You’re So Privileged, I Bet You Think This Article Is About You
More often than not, the examination of privilege misses the mark.
Under Discussion: In Vitro Meat
In 1931, Winston Churchill wrote an essay called “Fifty Years Hence,” which contained a series of predictions regarding the future of the human race. One of these predictions was that our food systems would change radically and become more efficient. He wrote, We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to …
Breaking Up With Valentine’s Day
What might authenticity in love demand?
Under Discussion: Aristotelian Temperance and Cultured Meat
Lab-grown meat might lessen the instances of animal cruelty, but its invention also betrays an inability to keep our appetites in check.
COVID-19 and Food Justice
Now is the perfect time to rethink our relationship with meat — the industry behind it and the baggage that comes with it.
Digital Textbooks in Higher Education
The transition to an ebook market for college textbooks has important consequences for internet piracy and student debt.
The Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Responsibility for Risky Behavior
HIV criminalization laws have a lot to say about the duty to disclose and assumption of risk, and perhaps even more to say about attitudes of racism and homophobia.
Does Care Require Personhood? The Ethics of Robot Caregiving
Emerging healthcare technologies like Rudy, Addison, and PARO should prompt us to reassess the healthcare industry and to contemplate the difference between service and care.
On Censorship, Same-Sex Marriage, and a Cartoon Rat
Recent censorship in Alabama and Arkansas of a cartoon same-sex marriage in a kids’ show on public television raises questions about audience and inclusivity. Who is guilty of “having an agenda?”
“It Wasn’t ‘Me'”: Neurological Causation and Punishment
Our understanding of neurological causation and personal responsibility is evolving. What is the impact of these findings for our criminal justice system?
Earth Day, Lettuce Shortages, and Future Food Crises
Earth Day’s theme may have been ending plastic pollution, but many more environmental crises are at hand.
Taking Stock of Solitary Confinement’s Mental Toll
Though solitary confinement in prisons remains a divisive issue, evidence of the practice’s detrimental effects is mounting.
Facebook Live’s Violence Problem
In light of a murder broadcast on Facebook Live, the social media giant works to navigate the delicate balance between censorship and enabling the spread of violent images.
Defunding America’s Cultural Institutions: An Exercise in Absurdity
A look at the Trump administration’s budget priorities makes clear that cutting the NEA, NEH and CPB is more about symbolic posturing than fiscal sensibility.
Pediatricians back away from screen use guidelines
This piece originally appeared in the Providence Journal on December 9, 2015. The American Academy of Pediatrics has long advised parents to keep children under age 2 away from video screens, and to limit older children to two hours of screen time per day. The thinking has been that children deluged with video are less likely …
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The Right to Gluttony: Sustainability vs. Individual Rights
Can your individual right to have a steak be overruled by a global need for a sustainable future?
Progress, paradox, and the food justice movement
This post draws on my experience from co-leading the Prindle Institute’s Alternative Spring Break trip to Nashville, TN focused on food ethics and justice on March 22-28, 2015. Food justice is an issue that many of us are indirectly exposed to at an early age. We’re taught, often through religious education but also in other …
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