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On a Replacement for "Bullshit"

Animal Person

Is using the word "bullshit" un-vegan? Does it perpetuate linguistic-based speciesism? So here's a whiffdoodle: A book or series of books (maybe just a wiki) of replacement words for speciesist terms -- of which there must be thousands. Any thoughts on the speciesism or un-veganness of "bullshit"?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.) Each argument has an audience.

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

Here are some observations: When reading a book about gorillas to/with a seven-year old, I was struck by the mixed messages the book sent. Here 's the book, and in the preview you can see that in the beginning when the gorilla being described is male he is referred to as "he." I'm a terrible fiction writer.

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