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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

There's no "compassion" in the process. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. A violation of trust or confidence, an abandonment of something committed to one's charge. Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry.

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