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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. The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?) it's not so bad.

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

And the reverse is true: If parents are unaware, it should be no surprise that whatever compassion or sense of justice a child has is not nurtured. We do that with cats and dogs already, right? Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism. I put this out there to you all because I'm not that person.

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