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To My Friends at Thanksgiving

Animal Person

There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse. There will be no pies or cakes that were made with milk that was meant for calves, or eggs that represent dead male chicks , forced molting, debeaking and other mutilations and cruelties.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

That's one more reason to forego the Christmas Turkey or Ham this year. So, even if it were permissible to eat the flesh of humanely raised animals who were painlessly killed (as we have been assuming ), the permissibility of eating such animals does not entail the permissibility of eating inhumanely raised animals.