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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Often it permanently disables or kills. Each year, US zoos label thousands of nonhuman animals 'surplus' and treat them accordingly" (87).

Animal 100
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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. There is no ethical justification for treating an animal inhumanely for no good reason. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare.

Factory 40
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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. Since it would not be wrong to eat the flesh of animals raised in that manner, eating meat is not morally wrong! [As