t, however, and
since the thought of animal suffering can be so easily divorced from eating animals, the
inconsistent practices continue unabated. And yet it is worth noticing that the dominant
argument for vegetarianism—the argument that (a) it is wrong to cause unnecessary pain
and suffering; (b) eating meat causes unnecessary pain and suffering; (c) so eating meat it
wrong—is mostly an argument with which reluctant and even not so reluctant meat eaters
would agree