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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. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public. Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane.

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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. 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.]