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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. Studies have also found that: Pet owners are less likely to suffer from depression than those without pets.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question. If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. Clearly, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and fish do not consent to being eaten. KBJ: Ditto.

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