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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. How might one defend premise (6)? The answer, according to the ADA, is “No.”

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Blithe images of all forms of animal production hide the bleak realities.