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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Would we say these people were slaughtered in a “people friendly” manner? Confinement is confinement, mutilation is mutilation, and slaughter is slaughter. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

In addition, the animals are subjected to excruciating mutilations – including branding, dehorning, debeaking, tooth pulling, tail docking, and castration – all performed without anesthesia. Consequently, there is no good reason – no sufficiently weighty reason – to raise animals in inhumane conditions and kill them for food.