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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

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.] Furthermore, individuals in the highest quintile of processed meat intake had a 20% elevated risk for colorectal and a 16% elevated risk for lung cancer. (p. The answer, according to the ADA, is “No.”