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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. If fishers truly wished to revitalize fish populations, they would leave them alone.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals suffer when killed. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. Hunters like him. He says meat tastes more precious when you’ve watched it die. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse?

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.