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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

For example, "free roaming chickens" conjures up images of happy chickens running free and unfettered all about the barnyard, when in fact the label "free roaming chickens" just means chickens that were not raised in battery cages. Doublespeak is language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. The noxious fumes from the accumulated urine and feces cause lung problems in many of the animals.