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Julian H. Franklin on Animals and Plants

Animal Ethics

Animals as well as humans can suffer pain, deprivation, and unwanted death. Vegetables cannot. Hence there is a very fundamental and relevant sense in which we cannot harm a vegetable. The head of lettuce and the flower, however, feel nothing and regret nothing so far as we know.

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Water Worries—How We're Drugging Other Species

Animal Ethics

You'll spare the fish, and you'll reduce your exposure to these unwanted pharmaceutical compounds. Now, we're learning that other fish species have residues of the above array of pharmaceutical substances in their tissues. Play it safe. Switch to a plant-based diet. Back to water. But think again.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

The Bush administration has deftly escalated the rhetoric of terror to such a fevored pitch that virtually any unwanted conduct can now be dubbed an act of “terror”. We have the Bush administration to thank for that. You don’t think so. Look again at the clause in H.R.4239 4239 that was finally removed from the Senate version of the Act.