Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The reason that the industry is losing the argument is quite simple: There is no ethical justification for causing an animal to suffer unnecessarily. There is no ethical justification for killing an animal for no good reason. There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Nor ought we kill them without reason.

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