4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

But calls to arms can easily turn, via Moore’s pen and her voice, into hectoring: if you are an “inattentive citizen” who, “distracted or dozing,” won’t step up, you are guilty of “moral failure.” “Those who fail to respond to the emergency call,” she warns ominously, “become part of the storm itself.”. She now lives in Oregon and Alaska.)

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

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. Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals? To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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