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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). By pairing humane with slaughter , legislators have sanctioned horrific cruelty and mass murder. What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain? Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Chance is so close!

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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.