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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans. While people with dogs often experience the greatest health benefits, a pet doesn’t necessarily have to be a dog or a cat.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question. Such animals would be incapable of feeling pain or having experiences of any kind. If not, why not?

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