There is a surprising consensus among vegan philosophers that freeganism—eating animal-based foods going to waste—is permissible. Some ethicists even argue that vegans should be freegans. In this paper, we offer a novel challenge to freeganism drawing upon Donaldson and Kymlicka’s ‘zoopolitical’ approach, which supports ‘restricted freeganism’. On this position, it’s prima facie wrong to eat the corpses of domesticated animals, as they are members of a mixed human-animal community, ruling out many freegan practices. This exploration reveals how the ‘political turn’ in animal ethics can offer fertile lenses through which to consider ethical puzzles about eating animals.

素食主义哲学家有一个令人惊讶的共识，即自由主义——吃会浪费的动物性食物——是允许的。一些伦理学家甚至认为纯素食者应该是自由素食者。在本文中，我们利用 Donaldson 和 Kymlicka 的“动物政治”方法对自由主义提出了新的挑战，该方法支持“限制性自由主义”。在这个立场上，吃家养动物的尸体表面上是错误的，因为它们是人与动物混合社区的成员，排除了许多自由素食的做法。这一探索揭示了动物伦理的“政治转向”如何提供丰富的视角，通过这些视角来考虑关于吃动物的伦理难题。