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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. One cannot produce eggs or dairy products on a large scale without the wholesale exploitation of animals.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

To derive the immorality of raising, killing, and eating animals from (1) – (5), one needs the following additional premise: (6) The pain, suffering and killing of farm animals that inevitably results from meat production is gratuitous , i.e., it is done for no good reason. What’s good for us is good for the animals.