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Adopt A Turkey!

4 The Love Of Animals

Says DeGeneres: “Did you know that every year between 250 and 300 million turkeys are bred for slaughter in the United States? Here at Farm Sanctuary, we live with turkeys, so we know they are interesting and intelligent and have complex emotional lives like dogs, cats and other animals.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

It is estimated that the amount of grain fed to cattle and hogs in the United States in 1971 was twice that of U.S. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered. exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

A brief look at the public outcry concerning Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring shows just how widely accepted premise (1) is. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so. 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.