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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Cattle might be overproduced because of government subsidies and new markets found for meat. Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. But is it true that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent to the cruel treatment of animals? Certainly not.