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Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of

Animal Person

Do they suffer any more or less in death? There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). Are they any more or less sentient?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While this legislation would be an important step in transforming inhumane animal production, we must also call for change on the federal level, where the farm bill subsidizes this sector to the tune of billions of dollars. Mr. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice. We know that animals suffer as well.