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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.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

In my earlier post "Children and Heart Disease" available here , I noted that, in the seventh and final edition of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: A Handbook for Parents of the Developing Child from Birth to Adolescence , Dr. Benjamin Spock no longer recommends feeding animal products to children after two years of age.

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