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From Today's New York Times

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5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. You will enjoy a much better meal and can safely cook it to your preferred doneness, although it will cost more. Coli Shows Flaws in Ground Beef Inspection System ” (front page, Oct. 4): Your article about E. Victoria Bridgehampton, N.Y., Serge Scherbatskoy Arcata, Calif.,

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

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exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason.