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Reasons Consistently Applied

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And there are religious reasons: According to the Bible , the original divinely-prescribed diet was an entirely plant-based, vegan diet: "And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

At the time of slaughter, these frightened animals are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and shipped long distances to the slaughterhouse without food or water or protection from the elements. It wouldn’t be a good reason to cause them to suffer in the process, but it would be a good reason to raise and kill them for food.]

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From Today's New York Times

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Animal agriculture is inherently inhumane. My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. These farmers work long hours moving animals from pasture to pasture and often struggle with a paucity of meat-processing infrastructure suitable to the needs of small-scale producers.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. There is another reason that could be given for not eating meat in view of the present inhumane treatment of animals. 26) that in order to compensate for a declining birth rate in the U.S., milk production.