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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

10,000 Birds

He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Get yours today!

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Kermie

Animal Person

I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. It’s too late, I thought, she’s already had her way with poor Kermie, and now she too is not long for this world.