Remove Abandonment Remove Hunters Remove Killing Remove Suffering
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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). Often it permanently disables or kills. Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67).

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Kermie

Animal Person

I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. Though she hadn’t managed to kill anyone yet, I wasn’t about to roll the dice on whether she really did have some kind of predator instinct. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. There is a God, I thought.