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On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us

Animal Person

According to Parker, here are the threats: the ALF, the ELF, SHAC, PeTA and the oddest member of the group, the HSUS. Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.

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Ends and Means

Animal Ethics

Only the fourth is respectful of persons, which is a moral imperative. I hate it when someone refuses to denounce extremists. When someone from PETA, for example, refuses to denounce those who use violent means to pursue their ends, it links PETA with those means. The second is to use coercion (i.e., the threat of harm).