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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

Meat eating as implied by the foregoing remarks may be more ecologically responsible than a wholly vegetable diet. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. ( It has everything to do with "the quantity of pain that these unfortunate beings experience."

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W. V. Quine (1908-2000) on Altruism

Animal Ethics

As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? One then proceeds, however, as one will, to systematize and minimize one's ethical axioms by reducing some causally to others. One thinks also of unborn generations.

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