The Vegetarian Conscience, by Harold Hillman
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Description: Taking the consequences of a vegetarian ethic seriously
In the developed world, an increasing proportion of the population is vegetarian, and even more do not eat red meat. The health food industry is thriving. People become vegetarians for the following reasons: a) they believe that it is morally wrong to rear and kill animals to eat, when it is possible to live in good health without doing so; b) they believe that a vegetarian diet is healthier. ( Although a number of well-designed studies have shown that vegetarians are, indeed, healthier than the rest of the population, this may be due to the fact that they eat less, weigh less, smoke less and tend to drink less than there confreres, so it is difficult to separate these factors - which are known to favour good health - from vegetarianism as the cause of their robustness ); c) much more land is required to rear animals for slaughter than for growing the same amount of protein-containing plants; d) the sight, smell and sound of slaughter houses and the slaughter itself is unpleasant, even when the animals have been transported to the slaughter houses in humane conditions; e) an increasing proportion of animals are reared in battery conditions or in factory farms, which are thought to be cruel; f) orthodox Moslems and Jews who eat meat from animals slaughtered in conditions meeting their ritual requirements sometimes say they are vegetarians, because their halal or kosher slaughter is not widely understood; g) their parents are vegetarians.
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