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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. "Fishers who catch and release may kill more fishes than those who catch only the number they're legally allowed to keep.

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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. Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason.