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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. In my experience there are at least a handful of issues that involve compromise when the idea of veganism collides with real life. And this is one of them. But who cares about me?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Becoming a vegetarian is the most practical and effective step one can take towards [sic; kbj] ending both the killing of non-human [sic; kbj] animals and the infliction of suffering upon them. It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S.