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Industrial Agriculture

Animal Ethics

Animal rights is neither progressive nor conservative. Moore looks like he has eaten one too many hamburgers.) Many conservatives care about animals as well as human beings. Many conservatives care about animals as well as human beings. Why animal rights is considered a progressive cause is mind-boggling.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India.