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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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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. On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on. The contrast would be, for example, “health vegetarianism.”