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On "The Wild"

Animal Person

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. The animals on farms are created for the sole purpose of human consumption. Yes, that's true.

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John Rodman on Theriophobia

Animal Ethics

A society founded on the principle of satisfying appetites is "a city of pigs" (Plato). He also said that "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied." The well-spring of theriophobia is thus fear of self, and its central mechanism is projection.

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J. Baird Callicott on Wild Life

Animal Ethics

Wild animals and native plants have a particular place in nature, according to the land ethic, which domestic animals (because they are products of human art and represent an extended presence of human beings in the natural world) do not have. as is the humane ethic.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras. Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,