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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. It involves not killing them. And there's no way around that.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 9 of 13

Animal Ethics

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. For example, on Tooley’s analysis, having a right to life is the same as being a person. Consequently, the killing of some animals for food, if done painlessly, is not morally objectionable.

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