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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. For this to happen, subsidies that keep animal feed artificially low, and encourage producers to raise as many animals as possible, should end. Jillian Fry Baltimore, Dec.

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R. G. Frey on the Principle of the Equal Consideration of Interests

Animal Ethics

The principle of the equal consideration of interests, therefore, applies to them, which in turn means that we are not morally justified in ignoring, disregarding, or otherwise neglecting their interests. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.