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| Principle(s)
Deciding whether something is or is not ethical sound
partly depends on personal assessment.
Basing your opinion on a principle, as we do, makes
it much easier to decide. Our principle is that freedom
is most important for both humans and animals.
The various ways of keeping (housing) animals, and
the way people choose their food are brought together
in the ethical scale depicted alongside. Here too one's
own conscience plays an important role. It's still your
own responsibility whether or not to eat meat or dairy
products. When these are products from factory
farming, they are not ethically acceptable. |
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Ethical
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| Ethical scale |
Chickens |
Pigs |
Fish |
| Ethically
unsound |
Laying battery |
Tied sow |
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Salmon breeding |
| Table type chick farm
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| Pleasure hunting |
Fishing (angling) |
| Personal
judgment |
Hunting for the control
of wildlife |
Offshore fishing |
| Aviary |
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| Free-range farm |
Aquarium |
| Biological |
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| Ecological |
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| Bio-dynamic |
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sound |
Vegetarianism |
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Veganism
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| Books that can be ordered at
Amazon: |
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USA: |
Canada: |
Why Birds Don't Have Feathers: Candid
Look at the Poultry and Egg Industry
by Karen Davis |
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UK: |
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USA: |
Canada: |
Livestock, Ethics and Quality of Life
by J. Hodges (Editor), I.K. Han (Editor), I.K. Hann
(Editor) |
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