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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

Animal Person

Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? Sometimes an article has a couple of the above, as in the case of " Chinese Legal Experts Call for a Ban on Eating Cats and Dogs." Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats. Or if it's brutal it is necessary.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. Nobody wants existing animals to be slaughtered. It assumes that not eating meat is one way to conserve grain.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. Indeed, many paleoanthropologists maintain that the evolution of the large, energy-hungry human brains depended on a transition of our ancestors’ diets to include meat. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

And what follows, as you might imagine, is his support of "ethical meat" (for those who insist on eating animals). I simply don't understand the core message of this book--that eating animals can be wrong for one person, yet that same person supports the unnecessary slaughter of animals as long as it's done in a certain way.

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Jonathan Bennett on Revisable Morality

Animal Ethics

Many people exclude animals from moral consideration, even though they would never think to neglect, much less harm, a dog or a cat. Perhaps the sympathetic impulse would be activated if people saw how their meat is produced. Have you looked at images or videotapes of slaughter? Have you taken the time to investigate this?

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Adopt A Turkey!

4 The Love Of Animals

Says DeGeneres: “Did you know that every year between 250 and 300 million turkeys are bred for slaughter in the United States? Here at Farm Sanctuary, we live with turkeys, so we know they are interesting and intelligent and have complex emotional lives like dogs, cats and other animals.

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