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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Herzog, unsurprisingly, uses “it” to refer to animals, eats and wears them, and “[does] not feel particularly guilty about it” (P.S., The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure. At least his research on pit bull-types of dogs demonstrates the injustice they face. .

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. In contrast, abstract-rational entities, like personhood or rights, are not. The campaign should not demand huge changes in society.