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On "Wild Justice"

Animal Person

" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. Also, Bekoff and Pierce present a descriptive view, not a normative view of morality. There are no judgments.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Anna Lappé Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 The writer is a co-founder of the Small Planet Institute. As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D.

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. Since the New Year's resolutions you have made for 2008 are your resolutions, I assume that you would actually like to succeed in keeping them. How and by when?

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