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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. Such animals would be incapable of feeling pain or having experiences of any kind. If not, why not?

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