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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). Often it permanently disables or kills.

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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. You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described.