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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Many of us have difficulty with the idea of keeping “pets.” When it comes to pets, the only reasons he considers for keeping pets have to do with the enrichment of the lives of people. He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.

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The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish

4 The Love Of Animals

As a boy myself, and again as a father of three boys, I can tell you, I’ve had some pets in my life. I was preparing to pound my veal for some scaloppini. “A new pet,&# I remarked, knowing the feeling. Garth is the author of Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog. The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

There are self-interested, health-based reasons to go vegetarian: The major killers of Americans--heart disease, cancer, and stroke--are all strongly positively correlated with meat consumption. So, by purchasing dairy products one is indirectly supporting the inherently cruel veal industry.