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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. If people had to see what these animals are subjected to or take an active role in their deaths, I believe many more people would think before they eat. To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. KBJ: Singer’s claim is that one should not contribute, even incrementally, to animal suffering.