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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. These birds can learn to pull a string to retrieve a short stick, use the stick to pull out a longer one, then use the long stick to draw out a piece of meat. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 7 of 13

Animal Ethics

The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism. capable of suffering), then yes, it would follow that they matter, morally, because suffering is intrinsically bad.

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