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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. What if slaughter were freed (miraculously) of all terror and pain?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. Authors who referred to their animals by given names were instructed to use a string of letters and numbers instead." It does not make them more or less a "tool."