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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. Seriously, folks, if you are going to respect someone, you're not going to hold them captive and kill them. It involves not killing them. Potent if symbolic? Not eating them.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

When I started blogging, I thought that if more people sought out free-range, grass-fed "beef," more animals would be saved/fewer would be created. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Americans systematically exploit and kill animals - sometimes for scientific progress; sometimes for leather jackets, ham sandwiches, or horse-racing. Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick animal rights. This is part of the piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer.