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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." The chef's perspective is represented by Dan Barber, who serves Eggleston's meat. The second paragraph needs to be looked at sentence by sentence.

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. I suspect that meat consumption would decline dramatically under such a code; it would certainly make many of us less hypocritical. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.