Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
In addition, the animals are subjected to excruciating mutilations – including branding, dehorning, debeaking, tooth pulling, tail docking, and castration – all performed without anesthesia. If we needed to eat animals in order to be optimally healthy, that would constitute a good reason to raise and kill them for food. [It
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