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Industrial Agriculture

Animal Ethics

By the way, the editorial board of the New York Times is progressive (as opposed to conservative). 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. See here for one sufficient ground.

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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. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve.