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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

I think he also doesn't know that not all of us think that chasing down Class B dealers is as important as working to shut down animal experimentation and create more alternatives. In 10 or 15 years of life, he suffered through multiple surgeries and infections and endless hours of restraint in a plastic chair. Maybe on paper.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Philosophers make distinctions in order to focus attention on particular classes of things. What seems to be absent in some recent vegetarian arguments, however, is any consideration of animals.