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Secrets of the Mangroves

4 The Love Of Animals

The shape of the story will be governed by the tides and the seasonality, so individual species will be used to link the narrative flow. Other animals that have rarely been seen on film such as the Palm nut vulture, bush pigs, mongoose, monitor lizards and snakes feeding on fish and crabs found in the Mangroves. Tags: tv.

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On "The Wild"

Animal Person

The problem with that statement is it's not as if farmers are searching "the wild" for cows, pigs, chicken and fish, plucking them from their homes, and plopping them on a farm to live out their (shortened) lives prior to slaughter. I do not pass judgment on other species, whose motives I cannot comprehend. Besides, we have choices.

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

Animal Person

Not only have dogs and humans influenced each other for tens of thousands of years, they have done so in far more profound ways than any other two species on earth, and primarily in the direction of acting on the capacity for love in all its different manifestations, such as showing sympathy, feeling empathy, and expressing compassion" (xi).

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

In the end, they can still have their dogs and eat their pigs, without feeling that they are doing anything wrong by favoring one species over another, or taking someone's life when they don't need to. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. In other words, "EATING ANIMALS" is a remarkably palatable book for the masses.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

KBJ: Humans and pigs are not just sentient, which already distinguishes them from microorganisms; they are, in Tom Regan’s terminology, “subjects of a life.” One might first ask, “Why does higher intelligence mean that one species is more valuable than other species?” Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. But the question remains.

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