Animal Rights Movement, Reference and Suffering

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

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Herzog, unsurprisingly, uses “it” to refer to animals, eats and wears them, and “[does] not feel particularly guilty about it” (P.S., He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. At least his research on pit bull-types of dogs demonstrates the injustice they face. .

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Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy

On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

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. I don't think it's one or the other.

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Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering

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

On the Psychological Continuum

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