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Animal Person

Achieving humane treatment of animals is inconceivable with our big, popular universities teaching the opposite! Thank you for making it possible to represent the animals' -- including the human animal's -- interests! Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Medical schools, in particular, made ample use of them for education and research in surgery and cardiology."

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

In any case, which various political strategies would be most efficient for achieving humane treatment of animals is an empirical question. The important question seems to me to be: Which kind of protest will be most effective in educating people to the cruelties? KBJ: Martin acts as though each of us can do only one thing.