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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

Do they suffer any more or less in death? The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. However, remember that he understands that emotion ("the heart") is what ultimately governs what most of us do, and certainly what he does, so he won't be eating any more dogs.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. The fact that geese mate for life, and that the mate of the poor goose that was slaughtered would step forward, was enough to make me swear off meat forever, if I hadn’t already.