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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

Meat eating as implied by the foregoing remarks may be more ecologically responsible than a wholly vegetable diet. It has everything to do with "the quantity of pain that these unfortunate beings experience." That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. Why wouldn’t they?

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