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The Conscience of a Human Being
Michael Huemer says that how we treat animals may be a crucial test of conscience.
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Searching for Common Ground on Meat Eating and Public Policy
Andy Lamey argues that factory farming has come to distort the political process, to say nothing of our moral reasoning.
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The Moral Status of Animal Suffering
Shawn E. Klein argues that humans' moral considerations can't be sensibly founded on suffering alone.
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Carnivory as Conformity
Andy Lamey says that we eat meat out of an unexamined habit--and it often shows.
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Replies to Lamey, Skoble, and Klein
When it comes to factory farming, virtually everyone who actually addresses the question “Is the thing we are doing right now okay?” answers “No.”
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A Consensus on Factory Farming
"What keeps factory farming in existence is not popular support, but the regulatory capture of legislatures by powerful industry interests," writes Andy Lamey.