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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." Or pig, or duck, or fish. Do they suffer any more or less in death? Are they any more or less part of the mysterious unity of life? I think not. There's no way out.

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