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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. This makes it much harder for people to have empathy for snakes, even though snakes have retained all the biological features that are important to consider for animal ethics (just like turtles and lizards).

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From Today's New York Times

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11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles. But the people who raise and package beef share a commitment to aggressively finding and applying safety solutions that keep them out of our food.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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There is also little dispute concerning the following premise: (4) The animals that become that meat are reared in ways that subject them to intense pain and suffering for much of their lives. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.

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Another Reason to Go Vegetarian

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It's hard to say because the government still has not instituted a comprehensive MRSA inspection process, but independent research conducted by Tara Smith, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa, suggests that MRSA-infected animals may be widespread indeed. Just how prevalent is MRSA-infected meat?

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From Today's New York Times

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billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. But one consequence that Mr.

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From Today's New York Times

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Well-planned vegan diets are healthful for pregnant mothers and their infants, as well as for older children, according to a large body of scientific research. I’ve raised a vegan child since conception. He was starved to death by parents who did not give him breast milk, soy-based infant formula or enough food of any kind.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

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Scientific research and expertise are needed here. The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? Furthermore, genetic engineering might be able to produce meat-bearing animals that could be used for food without being killed. KBJ: I agree that this is a factual question.

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