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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? Do they suffer any more or less in death? Dog was not easy for me," he writes.

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On Cannibalism

Animal Person

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong.

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