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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

Animal Person

If you don't have to enslave, rape, dominate, or kill someone (or have someone else do it for you), why would you? Sometimes an article has a couple of the above, as in the case of " Chinese Legal Experts Call for a Ban on Eating Cats and Dogs." Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? Where do people get that idea?

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On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech

Animal Ethics

The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”