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J. Baird Callicott on Domesticity

Animal Ethics

There is thus something profoundly incoherent (and insensitive as well) in the complaint of some animal liberationists that the "natural behavior" of chickens and bobby calves is cruelly frustrated on factory farms. African cheetas [sic] in American and European zoos are captive, not indentured, beings.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

The underlying premise is that you can know what is right (such as me knowing what's right then eating cow flesh in the form of filet mignon for a year), but that by no means will necessarily manifest in your behavior. Hence the psychological continuum described (below) by Austria's Association Against Animal Factories from about a year ago.