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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

Meat eating as implied by the foregoing remarks may be more ecologically responsible than a wholly vegetable diet. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. ( That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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W. V. Quine (1908-2000) on Altruism

Animal Ethics

As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? Is it to extend, in some degree, to the interests of individuals belonging to other species than [our] own? One thinks also of unborn generations.

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