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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

Steve Best's verbal presentation of his ideas sometimes irks me. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language animal rights Culture Ecology Ethology speciesism The Left veganism. It's over-the-top, for me, and I often resent the time I must spend working through the ranting. Chimp 'showed malice aforethought' (guardian.co.uk).

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

Some of the arguments I will present are not worked out in detail, and no detailed criticisms of any one provegetarian argument will be given. Two varieties of moral vegetarianism can be distinguished: lactovo moral vegetarianism and vegan moral vegetarianism. The contrast would be, for example, “health vegetarianism.”

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

I'm sure intelligence was in there somewhere, but the fact is that gorillas are presented as more important and more human than other animals, therefore they are worthy of saving. Therefore, one of the many things we need, aside from the obvious of more vegan parents, is a line of nonspeciesist books for each age/stage.

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