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On Animal Abuse Registries and Anthropolatry

Animal Person

Also, I couldn't resist mentioning a word that was new to me until today, and it's surprising that it's new given what is is: Anthropolatry : The productive suffix -latry (from Greek, meaning "worship") clues us up that this is a form of worship, and the anthropo- part means "humankind," as it does in many related words.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

VARIETIES OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM Moral vegetarianism will be understood as the view that because of some moral principles one ought not to eat certain edible animals and perhaps animal products. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc.