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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. We all do.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,