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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 12 of 13

Animal Ethics

In the weaker form of the argument it is maintained only that eating meat tends to make people less sensitive to people’s inhumane treatment of other people and more willing to accept people’s brutality and inhumanity to other people. Whatever form the argument takes, it is important to understand its status.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. In any case, which various political strategies would be most efficient for achieving humane treatment of animals is an empirical question. In other contexts a similar phenomenon has occurred. One can do many things.