Compassion Hunters Slaughter Suffering 
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 24, 2007
14): To the animals being slaughtered, it does not matter whether their killers are local or whether they will be eaten or displayed on a wall. Their suffering is the same. There are no “lofty pedestals” for those without compassion or empathy for other creatures. Rebecca Sunshine Hartsdale, N.Y.,
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace.
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