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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

The New York Times ' Nicholas D. I suppose speciesism/human exceptionalism is at the heart of the matter. Tags: Activism Economics Ethics Language. Kristof frustrates me. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. it's not so bad.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

This was two years after Robert Nozick discussed the moral status of nonhuman animals in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974) and one year after Peter Singer published Animal Liberation (New York: Avon Books, 1975). Tags: Moral Vegetarianism.

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

I went back to New York to the areas where I grew up and went to college and graduate school for a five-day weekend. Tags: Books Ethics Language parenting publishing speciesism veganism. I'd been longing for NYC and, as usual, thinking about moving back. The Nor'easter cured me of that longing.

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