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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public. Blithe images of all forms of animal production hide the bleak realities. I still have the same six-pack stomach I had in the Marines.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

The noxious fumes from the accumulated urine and feces cause lung problems in many of the animals. In addition, the animals are subjected to excruciating mutilations – including branding, dehorning, debeaking, tooth pulling, tail docking, and castration – all performed without anesthesia. Ethical synergy at work.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. All of the male hatchlings are either smothered or ground up alive.