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On Individuals and Thanksgiving

Animal Person

I couldn't help but juxtapose all of that care for one individual of another species with the individual who would be on the table today. cause for concern about his welfare. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights Thanksgiving veganism. And not just dead, mind you, but cause for celebration. Yet the turtle.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." Animal activists don't care about the health or welfare of deer herds? First of all, does he really believe that piffle? What on earth would even give him that idea?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan.