Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

It seems like the answer to most questions/responses to most issues is one of these: Speciesism. 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.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Here are some of my favorite quotes: " Companion anima l reduces a dog, cat, or other nonhuman to the role of companion. A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

He's right with his implication that stopping the seizing of pets and strays simply created a more efficient, effective means of commodifying and torturing dogs and cats. Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. Maybe on paper.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

When referring to cats, dogs and horses of unknown sex, the children would randomly assign sex, with the conventionally "prettier" animals being called "she." I remember that as a child I called all cats "she" and dogs "he" in the absence of a name. We do that with cats and dogs already, right? That makes sense to me.

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