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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? Or the vegetarian who still uses dairy? So instead of three votes, we alienate two, but still maintain our purity?

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on Zoophily

Animal Ethics

And here we see the inevitable logic of Vegetarianism, if our belief in the Rights of Animals is ever to quit the stage of theory and enter the stage of fact; for just as there can be no human rights where there is slavery, so there can be no animal rights where there is eating of flesh. "To

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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

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Sold out crowds of over 400 guests have enjoyed a vegetarian dinner complemented by cocktails with themed names such as the “Fuzzy Kitten” and the “Tom Cat”. Event partners and sponsors include: PETCO, Central Life Sciences, Natural Balance, Febreze and Dyson. Jennifer Conrad, DVM, of The Paw Project were also highlights of the events.

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On the Vegan "Diet"

Animal Person

However, there's a context here, and that context is that the message is coming from an organization that focuses on the science angle of our use of sentient nonhumans (i.e., At least they didn't say "vegan cleanse." animals in research, in schools or as food). And they concentrate on the health aspects of removing animals from your diet.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer. Smart , "Ethics and Science," Philosophy 56 [October 1981]: 449-65, at 453 [italics in original]) I am myself not so heroic. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

22): Mr. Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?