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“Caregivers, Kids, and Carnist Structural Injustice” published

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My co-author, Jeremy Fischer, and I just published our latest joint article, “Caregivers, Kids, and Carnist Structural Injustice,” which you can find in the Journal of Applied Philosophy as part of a special issue about food, families, and justice.

This is our second paper about carnist caregiving (that is, caregiving that trains and encourages kids to regularly eat animal products). In it, we argue that existing social structures make it unreasonably difficult or unthinkable for many caregivers to avoid carnist caregiving. We make the case that these caregivers are unjustly induced and/or pressured into carnist caregiving. So justice requires reforming the social structures that systematically prevent caregivers from providing plant-based caregiving for kids.

“Creating Carnists” published

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My second co-authored paper with Jeremy Fischer, “Creating Carnists,” has finally, officially been published by Philosophers’ Imprint!

We’re so glad to be able to share our work in another open access venue, so that anyone and everyone can read it free of charge.

In the paper, we argue that there are child-centered reasons (relating to kids’ moral development, autonomy development, and physical health) for all caregivers (individual and institutional) to provide kids with maximally plant-based diets and related education – even if there is no general moral duty for adults to be vegan (although we think there is such a duty).

Since it has been two years (!) since the paper was initially accepted, there are a few things in it that we would say/do differently now. But in the intervening time, we’ve continued developing our arguments in various related works, so stay tuned to learn about how our ideas change (and don’t) over time!