It can be argued that changes of this sort will lead to major social injustices. Meat farmers, for example, would need alternative livelihoods. The same is true for trappers and miners and those in the animal laboratory industry, and so forth. I am not, for a single moment, denying the complexity, the interrelatedness, the social and political implications of these issues. But we cannot condone forever the pursuit of unethical, cruel, and destructive behaviors simply because to end them will create problems: would anyone advocate the continuation of concentration camps in order to ensure the
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