1. A Vegetarian Philosophy, by Peter Singer
that one chicken fewer sold makes no perceptible difference to the
chicken producers, and therefore there can be nothing wrong with
buying chicken. The division of moral responsibility in a
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2. Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?, by James Rachels
a lion in a zoo is not. A chicken in a small wire cage is
less free than one allowed to roam about a barnyard. And a bird
who is released from a cage and allowed to fly away is "set free"
in
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3. An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism, by Peter S. Wenz
ground meat, or steak or chicken or port from the grocery
store, without Kentucky Fried chicken, and without pepperoni or
sausage or ham on one's pizza, to mention but a few of the ways in
which the
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4. The Forgotten Animal Issue, by Peter Singer
judge found that:
* Chicken served by McDonald's comes from hens who have so little room to move that to keep them in this way is cruel, and McDonald's "are culpably responsible for that cruel practice."
* "A proportion of the
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5. 'They Clearly Now See the Link': Militant Voices, by Philip Windeatt
or a
battery chicken goes through.
What sustains
you?
It's the gut reaction. The
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6. Experiments on Animals, by Richard Ryder
pigeon, Akerman, 1965; chicken, Adams, 1965; Murphay and Phillips,
1967; Putkommen, 1966, 1967; von Hoist and St. Paul, 1963)."
(Behaviour, 36, 1970.)
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7. The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity, by Bernard Mandeville
much as killed a chicken without reluctancy the first time. Some
people are not to be persuaded to taste of any creatures they have
daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others
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8. Brave New Farm?, by Jim Mason
(now A&P) launched the 'Chicken
of Tomorrow' contest to find a strain of Chicken that could
produce a broad-breasted carcass at low feed cost. Within a few
years poultry breeders had developed the
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9. The First Step, by Leo Tolstoy
he never even killed a chicken in all his life." The
majority of Russians cannot kill; they feel pity, and express the
feeling by the word "fear." This man had also been "afraid," but
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10. Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the Vegetarian Option, ...
one Maryland chicken slaughterhouse will always be with me. It was
summer, 90 degree heat, humid, no shade, and the chickens were in
stacked crates. As we walked in, we were breathing the palpable
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