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On "That's Why We Don't Eat Animals"

Animal Person

" That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things ," written and illustrated by Ruby Roth, has gorgeous and haunting illustrations. And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals.

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

Or printed thousands of copies of vegan leaflets. Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. The average person doesn't fund programs that cost $8,000 per cat. Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel. Helping individuals, financially-speaking, isn't a great use of money.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. I don't think anyone is campaigning for "farm" animals to become pets, as many of us don't even think the family cat should be the family cat.

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