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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). Instead, they hide behind passive verbs.

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Kermie

Animal Person

I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. As I skulked around my own house, all I could picture was Emily tearing Kermie limb from limb, then suffering a grisly death from ingesting the poison that ran through Kermie’s froggy veins. There is a God, I thought. Clearly, he had complete disregard for his life.