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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Farmer writes about the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, where kids 5 to 11-years old are taught cooking in a place "that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure." Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? How about an ethical adventure ? But I bet anything doesn't go.

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On "The Road" and Humanity

Animal Person

They corral them, lock them up, and take them out to kill, cook and eat them as needed. Of course the man's a good guy--he hasn't killed and eaten his dog. As long as there is a family with a dog, there is hope. Tags: Ethics Film Language " animal rights "The Road movie review. They hunt them down in "the wild."

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On Talking With Veterinarians About Vegan Food

Animal Person

We have a request, and it's an issue I've written about a handful of times but never had this particular question answered by readers: How do you talk with your vet--who is against feeding your dog vegan food--about your choice to do so? I'm fortunate to have a regular (non-specialist) vet who has no problem at all with a vegan diet for dogs.

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On Veganism and Adoption

Animal Person

I do the shopping, cooking and baking, and I find vegan accessories for him to choose from. I wouldn't dream of paying someone to create a dog or cat--of intentionally bringing a dog or cat into this world--when there are so many who need homes. Tags: Activism Ethics. And this is where I think about veganism.

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On Flourless Cakes and Injuries

Animal Person

I began my journey by discovering something you all probably know, which is that you can substitute cooked black-eyed peas or adzuki beans for flour, like in the recipe for the above vegan flourless chocolate cake. And the dogs' spirits are high, as they get plenty of attention and stimulation. I may never use flour again.

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Animal Companions

Animal Ethics

It shifts the focus away from moral beings toward creatures in every respect less demanding—creatures like dogs, which return our affection regardless of our merits, or cats, which maintain an amiable pretense of affection while caring for no one at all (a fact always vehemently and fruitlessly denied by their keepers).

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

exports of grain for that year and was enough to feed every human being with more than a cup of cooked grain every day for a year. Or new markets could be found among the countries of the world where meat consumption is slight; more need for meat could be produced among nonvegetarians and dogs and cats.