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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

But alas, we' re too important and special to "manage," and every human pregnancy is treated as a sacred, blessed event, while we kill the kittens inside pregnant feral cats every day without batting an eyelash, and in fact we're relieved when we can catch one who's pregnant, as that's x number of cats who don't have to come into this world.

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On "Compassion," "Nonviolence" and "Justice"

Animal Person

Compassion" has been so diluted that most people don't bat an eyelash at the idea of " compassionate carnivores." What I do know is that I feel an urgency for the causes I care about that blogging, baking, giving money and doing TNR work simply doesn't satisfy. Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living.