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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

Reddit Animals

Whether we like to admit it or not, we (culturally) view animals on a "sentience spectrum." " We're more willing to forgive acts of animal abuse against animals like fish & amphibians, compared to mammals & birds. This is where I'd like to bring up "anthropomorphic bias."

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.