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80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Reason Not to Kill a Cow?
No one is denying that cows can have a quality of life moment. That can be good or bad. On the presumption that that's all that their lives are like, then I think what the kind of loss that happens in the world when a cow is killed is no worse than not bringing another cow into existence. But it is remediable by the existence of other cows and so on. So when people say the farming industry is responsible for the lives of more cows than there would be without it, that's exactly right. It's also sadly responsible for a lot of suffering. Putting that aside, I think there isn't a reason not to kill a cow of the same kind that there is
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