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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. To view someone who spends their life starving, piercing, mutilating, terrifying and killing others as a mentor is shocking. But not shocked enough.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward. They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. With respect to the stray cat Puck, we eventually learned her name was Jackie.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As the lead prosecutor in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet. May 21, 2007 To the Editor: “Death by Veganism,” by Nina Planck, strays far from the truth about vegan diets. He was starved to death by parents who did not give him breast milk, soy-based infant formula or enough food of any kind.