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Prop 2 Passes in California

Critter News

4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food.” Tags: proposition 2. Proposition 2 has been passed in California. on Prop 2 campaign.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 12 of 13

Animal Ethics

In the weaker form of the argument it is maintained only that eating meat tends to make people less sensitive to people’s inhumane treatment of other people and more willing to accept people’s brutality and inhumanity to other people. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. The weaker form of the argument seems to assume 5.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

In any case, which various political strategies would be most efficient for achieving humane treatment of animals is an empirical question. But is it true that by eating meat one is giving one’s tacit consent to the cruel treatment of animals? Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.