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Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Yet the turkey she raises is a much smaller factor in advancing global warming than the cattle on her ranch because they produce meat much more efficiently. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. It is estimated that the amount of grain fed to cattle and hogs in the United States in 1971 was twice that of U.S. These differences aside, is the argument valid?
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