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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

I realize that in writing about "old speciesism" I failed to define this term that Dunayer uses. I think of "old speciesism" as analogous to racism and sexism in that it is exploitation based on species. The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

I finally read SPECIESISM , by Joan Dunayer, which was published a couple of years after ANIMAL EQUALITY , which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong.

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On Animal Abuse Registries and Anthropolatry

Animal Person

This morning I posted " On California's Animal Abuse Registry Proposal " over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression and welcome any discussion about it. What a fitting addition to discussions about speciesism!

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On a Replacement for "Bullshit"

Animal Person

Does it perpetuate linguistic-based speciesism? The lesson: If you pick the right phonemes (memorable, fit with existing ways of making words, etc.), Any thoughts on the speciesism or un-veganness of "bullshit"? Here's an e-mail from a linguistics junkie for your consideration. Is using the word "bullshit" un-vegan?

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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

Animal Person

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone. Where do people get that idea?

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On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux

Animal Person

All of the former animal farmers come to the same conclusion: that what they were doing wasn't right. I didn't have to do the slaughtering to know what it feels like to have participated in something for a good chunk of my life that wasn't right. But that doesn't matter because it's the betrayal that I identify with. For all of us.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

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