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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

(Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p. 8) The argument for the immorality of eating meat continues with two additional, undeniable premises: (3) The animals that become that meat are killed. The noxious fumes from the accumulated urine and feces cause lung problems in many of the animals. No one disputes premise (3).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. These farmers work long hours moving animals from pasture to pasture and often struggle with a paucity of meat-processing infrastructure suitable to the needs of small-scale producers. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

Since chickens of the strain raised for meat production aren't typically raised in cages, the label "free roaming chicken" can legally be applied to chickens that were painfully debeaked and then permanently confined in an overcrowded shed with 100,000 other chickens each of whom had 7/10 of a square foot of floor space.

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