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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. Food for my soul does not involve grilled greyhound any more than it involves grilled chicken. The New York Times ' Nicholas D.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

Hence the psychological continuum described (below) by Austria's Association Against Animal Factories from about a year ago. And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour.