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Jonathan Bennett on Revisable Morality

Animal Ethics

It is natural to feel sympathy for animals who are suffering. Have you taken the time to investigate this? Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? This sympathy can be a basis for revising one's moral principles so as to take animals into account. Have you looked at images or videotapes of slaughter?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed. At 14, as I started making my own choices, my eating habits began to change.