Surprising Ethics is back with a new episode entitled “What should parents feed their children? Meat or vegan meals?”, featuring Rachel Fredericks and Jeremy Fischer. They ask: how can we craft a diet in the best interests of the child? Setting aside the usual arguments for veganism based on animals’ interests and climate change, they argue that parents have a duty to feed kids a maximally plant-based diet because of the child’s interests in health, moral development, and autonomy. This surprising take acknowledges myriad real-world constraints facing parents, and also highlights interesting scientific evidence on casual links between speciesism and prejudice against human out-groups. Will Gildea (GRÉEA, CRÉ) then puts the arguments to a panel of six parents to test them for real-world feasibility. Listen here.

In addition, Surprising Ethics was recently featured in an article in the public philosophy magazine The Pamphlet, co-edited by CRÉ member Anna Milioni (GRIPP, CRÉ). To read the interview, click here.