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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." 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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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

residents believe that it's wrong to kill animals for their pelts, but the pelt industry is legal. Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49).

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J. Baird Callicott on Factory Farms

Animal Ethics

With the Industrial Revolution an even more profound and terrifying transformation has overwhelmed them. Animals, beginning with the Neolithic Revolution, have been debased through selective breeding, but they have nevertheless remained animals. They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. But the entire industry is questionable.