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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. Is this moral? As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.”

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 7 of 13

Animal Ethics

For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. 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.

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