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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Let chickens be chickens, and avoid the whole moral dilemma by going vegan. Jean Bettanny Port Townsend, Wash.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

My doctor says my tremendous health and strength are due to my being a vegan. That’s right, for me—but it may not be for others. The debeaking of hens and other routine cruelties of egg production are seldom put before the public. Push-ups, sit-ups, carrying 50-pound bags of bird seed—and I will be 71 in May.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.