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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

There are environmental reasons to go vegetarian: The production of animal-derived foods is implicated in every major environmental problem. This FAO report goes on to note that livestock production is a major contributor to "land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity."

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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. Even those actively involved in the industry typically admit that these modern animal rearing practices cause animals severe pain and stress.