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US Government Continues Subsidizing Meat Industry

Critter News

Hard to wean people off animals when the US government is propping up the industries, and especially when so much of it ends up on school lunch trays (laying the foundation for this nation's obesity problem in my opinion.) Department of Agriculture also said it will buy $60 million of turkey, $2 million of lamb and $29.7

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

8) The argument for the immorality of eating meat continues with two additional, undeniable premises: (3) The animals that become that meat are killed. Even those actively involved in the industry typically admit that these modern animal rearing practices cause animals severe pain and stress. (Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p.