Back in 2016, Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf published one of the most thought provoking book in the animal rights world. It is called beating hearts, and it attempts to resolve a challenging question: How can you condemn hunting, animal farming, and animal experimentation while also favoring legal abortion, which is the deliberate destruction of a human fetus? If you are someone like me who thinks abortion should be legal but goes as far as not to even kill mosquitoes, than this issue hits home.

But more than that, this book is the proof that the secular vegan philosophy and intellectual tradition has enough depth to tackle and appropriate itself some of the most complex and sensitive moral hot button issues of our time.

To discuss the book, I have the honor to welcome the author himself, Michael C. Dorf, a Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University and long time animal rights advocate.

If you appreciate this conversation and my independent reporting of the animal rights world, then please share this episode with your fellow vegans.

Get the book "Beating Hearts": https://www.amazon.com/Beating-Hearts-Abortion-Critical-Perspectives/dp/0231175140

(From Sherry) Mind If I Order The Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Order-Cheeseburger-Questions-15-Feb-2014/dp/B011T6SBAO

(From Sherry) When Sex Counts: Making Babies and Making Law: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/When-Sex-Counts-Making-Babies/dp/0742551504

Follow Michael Dorf's insightful blog entries; https://www.dorfonlaw.org/

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