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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

I finally read SPECIESISM , by Joan Dunayer, which was published a couple of years after ANIMAL EQUALITY , which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. If fishers truly wished to revitalize fish populations, they would leave them alone. Chance is so close!

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