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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. Still, it can make a contribution.

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"Animal Rights Terrorism"

Animal Ethics

If their own values commit them to changing the way they treat animals, why haven't they changed the way they treat animals? Their only tool is the law of noncontradiction, which says that no proposition can be both true and false. The answer is that not everyone has thought through the implications of his or her values.