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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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She also explores pronouns and metaphors, and she even offers style guidelines and a thesaurus of "Alternatives to Speciesist Terms." Avoiding first-person pronouns, vivisectors report that cardiac arrest 'was produced' in puppies, rather than 'We gave puppies cardiac arrest'" (118). "By Instead, they hide behind passive verbs.

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