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Deliciously Vegan!

Animal Ethics

Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factory farm conditions. They realize that factory farming is inhumane. When they think of a meatless meal, they see an otherwise empty plate with a small side dish of vegetables, and that's it.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. And, as noted above, the original divinely-prescribed diet was a vegan diet.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Even those actively involved in the industry typically admit that these modern animal rearing practices cause animals severe pain and stress. At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements.