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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. Instead, they hide behind passive verbs.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

VARIETIES OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM Moral vegetarianism will be understood as the view that because of some moral principles one ought not to eat certain edible animals and perhaps animal products. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc.