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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

There are environmental reasons to go vegetarian: The production of animal-derived foods is implicated in every major environmental problem. This FAO report goes on to note that livestock production is a major contributor to "land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity."

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

To derive the immorality of raising, killing, and eating animals from (1) – (5), one needs the following additional premise: (6) The pain, suffering and killing of farm animals that inevitably results from meat production is gratuitous , i.e., it is done for no good reason. How might one defend premise (6)?