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Animal Ethics

The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. So if animal husbandry is to be prohibited, it should be on animal-welfare grounds, not environmental grounds. Force, coercion, and manipulation, by comparison, are inferior on each score. Others will do so for the sake of the environment.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

When he spends what seems like an eternity discussing cockfighting and the people who participate, mostly to set up the comparison to how the chickens we eat are treated and the lack of outrage over that, I respond, “What is wrong with you? You’re right, it is horrible! But I’m merely making his point.

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