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

Animal Person

Many of us have difficulty with the idea of keeping “pets.” When it comes to pets, the only reasons he considers for keeping pets have to do with the enrichment of the lives of people. The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue).

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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!