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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. I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. But the entire industry is questionable. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

We need language that doesn't support a divide between "pet" animals and everyone else. We can either bombard the publishing industry with proposals for books for kids, or we can create a publishing company ourselves for this specific purpose. Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism.

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