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When farm animals become pets and complicate food ethics

I got chickens thinking they would be easy but now I realize they have personalities and I feel guilty every time I eat their eggs.

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What we've seen

Proximity to animal consciousness transforms utilitarian relationships into moral complications we did not anticipate.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Companion animals?”

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