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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

As such, most people do not consider the potential abuse that may have taken place to bring their hamburger onto their dinner plate. While a nationwide vegan or vegetarian lifestyle change is highly unlikely, the abuse can be maintained through increased government regulation.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

What would the cost of a hamburger at Burger King or McDonald’s be if the meat were to come from Ms. Niman obscures the well-evidenced connection between veganism and environmentalism. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

And it certainly doesn't follow that it is permissible to eat meat that comes from animals who were forced to endure horribly inhumane factory farm conditions and who were then slaughtered inhumanely. Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason.