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From Today's New York Times

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5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. You will enjoy a much better meal and can safely cook it to your preferred doneness, although it will cost more. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E. Victoria Bridgehampton, N.Y., Serge Scherbatskoy Arcata, Calif.,

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

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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. exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It truly is horrific and despicable to treat animals so badly. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.