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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

Meat, however, purchased at the supermarket, externally packaged and internally laced with petrochemicals, fattened in feed lots, slaughtered impersonally, and, in general, mechanically processed from artificial insemination to microwave roaster, is an affront not only to physical metabolism and bodily health but to conscience as well.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) KBJ: Ditto.

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