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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. It wouldn’t be a good reason to cause them to suffer in the process, but it would be a good reason to raise and kill them for food.] The answer, according to the ADA, is “No.”