dan shahan is a philosopher who argues in favor of eating meat. it's so easy to make bad arguments here, like you've heard bad arguments and there at the tip of your tongue. you know, this is tasty, so therefore i should eat it. ah, that's not a good argument. we need to, to take this a lot more seriously. if we're going to formulate a genuine defense of this practice that most people engage in every day. his argument starts at the supermarket, the hidden one. think that might be our winner. i'm sure. for him, there's a difference between buying a pork shoulder to barbecue with neighbors, and being responsible for the conditions in which an animal is kept and killed. the impact of one sale is so small, it hardly makes a difference. a grosser can't afford to make their decisions about what items to stock in a way that would be sensitive to whether or not one person decides to have you know, toefl for dinner tonight or pork chops. he sees vegetarianism as a type of activism but he says vegetarian behavior will only have an effect when many people ta