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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

Spend more time with family and friends. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. If you currently eat meat, make a commitment to reduce your consumption of animals in January and stop eating them altogether in February.

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Resolve to Do Right by Animals in 2007!

Animal Ethics

Spend more time with family and friends. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Spend more time with family and friends—I will do X in the evening with my spouse or partner, and I will do Y with my kids on the weekend (where you and your family and friends fill in the variables appropriately).

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

So, even if it were permissible to eat the flesh of humanely raised animals who were painlessly killed (as we have been assuming ), the permissibility of eating such animals does not entail the permissibility of eating inhumanely raised animals. The weakness of these "defenses" must await another occasion.