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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Ridicule of Vegetarians

Animal Ethics

Anxious relatives and indignant friends adjure him to remember the duty he owes to himself and to his family, and urge him for the sake of those dear to him, if not for his own, to return to that great sacramental bond of union between man and man—the eating of our non-human fellow-beings.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

10,000 Birds

Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. But I digress.

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

That is when he hit upon the idea of a non-human serving as the chorus: I did not fail to perceive, in short, that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word.

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