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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. Many of us have difficulty with the idea of keeping “pets.”

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Dogs as Smart as 2-yr-old Kids

Animal Person

Because when you compare two species, or rather a nonhuman animal species to the human animal, the humans almost always come out on top. If the assessment that dogs have a certain level of intelligence or are like us results in them being treated better as pets or people wanting to profit from them less, great.