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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. Thousands of studies have demonstrated that human thinking about nearly everything is surprisingly irrational” (65). . Many of us have difficulty with the idea of keeping “pets.” You’re right, it is horrible!

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M. P. Golding on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. My pet turtle does not exercise, at his option, any rights over itself, things, or people. However, we do speak of the rights of such persons—their welfare-rights. But it doesn't follow that no animal can have a welfare -right!