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Breast Cancer in Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

While breast cancer awareness month for people might be over, it’s important to realize that we humans aren’t the only ones affected by the disease. Many people don’t realize that pets can also suffer from breast cancer. In fact, I experienced it first hand when my pet rat developed breast cancer late in her life.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Animals suffer when killed. Beyond that, though, is the tragedy of the doe’s sole contact with a human: a moment that could have initiated a communion between the two was instead reduced to carnage.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal. Now there is no doubt that the actual treatment of animals used for food is immoral, that animals are made to suffer needlessly. KBJ: Singer’s claim is that one should not contribute, even incrementally, to animal suffering.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

Michael Martin is a professor of philosophy at Boston University. A CRITIQUE OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM Michael Martin Boston University Vegetarianism is an old and respectable doctrine, and its popularity seems to be growing. One such case would be where human life depended on the nourishment that animals give when killed and eaten.