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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. It's cruel. No argument here.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. These birds are some of the most abused animals in agriculture. I replaced cow's milk with soy milk. Eggs and dairy products also contribute to all the environmental problems listed above.