I teach engineering ethics, so I should be expected to have a more nuanced take on this, but this is where I am, as regards organic animal cookies: it just seems wrong.
Really, don't you think? I suppose vegetarian animal cookies would be weirder. And organic? Big deal. It's not necessarily a contradiction. But every time I see the box, it confuses me.
Maybe it's directional, the way you come at it. By which I mean this: it isn't so much that it's wrong, as much as it simply doesn't seem right. What will the kids think?
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Are organic animal cookies made with real animal organs?
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