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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? This is where I'm confused. That action is to opt out and go vegan.

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On Going Vegan

Animal Person

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p. No one disputes premise (3). Running time: 12 Minutes.

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On Indigenous People and Animals

Animal Person

Cain=farmer=evil murderer; Abel=slaughtered animals=victim/good son. The fact remains, however, that if you don't need to kill anyone to survive, no amount of storytelling and mythmaking (or myth borrowing/co-opting) around that slaughter excuses it. Cain was the bad guy, Abel was the good guy. Net message? Are you annoyed yet? .

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). Some have tried to resolve this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. He is against it for himself and his family.

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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. It has everything to do with "the quantity of pain that these unfortunate beings experience."

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Reasons Consistently Applied

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There are self-interested, health-based reasons to go vegetarian: The major killers of Americans--heart disease, cancer, and stroke--are all strongly positively correlated with meat consumption. This 21-day program is designed for anyone who wants to explore and experience the health benefits of a vegan diet, and its free!