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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. Avoiding first-person pronouns, vivisectors report that cardiac arrest 'was produced' in puppies, rather than 'We gave puppies cardiac arrest'" (118). "By Instead, they hide behind passive verbs.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. Is this moral? Chimpanzees also dance at the onset of heavy rains and during violent gusts of wind.

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