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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Cattle might be overproduced because of government subsidies and new markets found for meat. Meat-packing companies might encourage, for example, an increased dog population to take up the slack. Knowing the irrationality of the market on the one hand and the cunning of meat producers on the other, one may well have doubts.