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On Surreal Lobster Advocacy

Animal Person

Here's my concern: Though I think the game is disgusting and cruel, it sort of pales in comparison to what comes next for the lobsters. If they want what's best for lobsters, they should be advocating for not killing and eating them at any restaurant (and then I guess the question becomes: why stop at lobsters).

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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. Interestingly, the campaigns of happy meaters are acknowledged for perhaps being somewhat of a scam with the next sentence. It involves not killing them. Potent if symbolic?

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. So why the hell do you continue to participate in the killing of chickens for food, yet cockfighting is no longer on your list?”

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Yes, racists are allowed to “spew racism,” but they are not allowed to encourage criminal activities, and if they were to carry their “advocacy” to the point of distributing videos that depicted the actual maiming or killing of the people they would like to get rid of, they would not be able to claim First Amendment protection. Lawrence A.