Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. Do they suffer any more or less in death? If sentience and suffering and "the mysterious unity of life" are really your concerns, you aren't going be eating any body. Are they any more or less sentient?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. Do they suffer any more or less in death? My bout of anguish began a few weeks back on a wintry night in central China, in the restless megalopolis of Chongqing. But I’m happy China eats dog." Are they any more or less sentient? And that's the bad news.

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought. And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! I call it VBM: Vegan Between Meals.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.

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