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On "Discarded" Greyhounds

Animal Person

From and article by: Ms T Baker Co-ordinator, www.greytexploitations.com (which has that fabulous Racism=Speciesism=Sexism graphic on its front page) Dougie is the third greyhound in as many months – which we know of – to have been subjected to this kind of attack but sadly, he was the only one to survive.

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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. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. "How long should one animal be used in the lab before it is euthanized?" Maybe on paper.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

Philosophers make distinctions in order to focus attention on particular classes of things. It would be argued that to suppose that a bird’s life is less valuable than a human life is a form of speciesism, a doctrine of prejudice analogous to racism and sexism. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.