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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Overly generous inclusion?

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Basis of this collection are the interdisciplinary lectures on Animal Rights which took place from April to October 2006 at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (Germany). The results of the lectures are written down in this book. More information on the book can be found here.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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Statistics

Animal Ethics

The previous best month (March 2006) had 1,730 visitors (55.8 In my view, the moral status of nonhuman animals is one of the most important issues that any of us will confront, and it confronts all of us. This blog had 2,325 visitors during November, which is an average of 77.5 visitors per day—which projects to 28,287.5

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties. Duty requires us, therefore, to eat our friends.

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