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On Coping Mechanisms

Animal Person

I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. I spend plenty of time doing nonprofit work that is unrelated to animals and also doing for-profit work that is unrelated to animals. In other words, I don't immerse myself in animal cruelty. I know it's out there.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. One suspects that the SPCA and the American Humane Society have done more to stop cruelty to animals than vegetarians ever could. It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values.