Birds Debeaking Killing Suffering 
Animal Ethics
APRIL 16, 2009
Animals raised for food suffer miserably. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
The reason that the industry is losing the argument is quite simple: There is no ethical justification for causing an animal to suffer unnecessarily. There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason.
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