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Bernard E. Rollin on the Moral Status of Animals

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Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance. 41 in A Companion to Bioethics , 2d ed.,

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: Re “ Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,” by Gary Steiner (Op-Ed, Nov. 22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov.

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Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) on Animals

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The whole dimension of morality doesn’t apply to him, or scarcely applies to him. Brigid Brophy , " The Darwinist's Dilemma ," Critical Society [winter 2009/10]: 15-22, at 18 [first published in 1979]) Note from KBJ: I commend this essay to your attention.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

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I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. Journal of the American Dietetics Association 109(7), July 2009: 1266-1282.]

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From Today's New York Times

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5, 2009 To the Editor: I ate my last hamburger last night. 4, 2009 To the Editor: Your otherwise impressive article did not mention irradiation, the only reliable method of eliminating E. 5, 2009 The writer worked from 1978 to 1990 at Consumers Union as a health and science writer for Consumer Reports Magazine.