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On a Replacement for "Bullshit"

Animal Person

Is using the word "bullshit" un-vegan? Does it perpetuate linguistic-based speciesism? Any thoughts on the speciesism or un-veganness of "bullshit"? Tags: Ethics Language Linguistics Neologism Roald Dahl veganism. Here's an e-mail from a linguistics junkie for your consideration.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Language animal rights Culture Ecology Ethology speciesism The Left veganism.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

Two varieties of moral vegetarianism can be distinguished: lactovo moral vegetarianism and vegan moral vegetarianism. Lactovo and vegan moral vegetarianism can be subdivided into what might be called new and old or traditional moral vegetarianism. Each argument has an audience.

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

Therefore, one of the many things we need, aside from the obvious of more vegan parents, is a line of nonspeciesist books for each age/stage. There might be a handful of PeTA efforts around suffering, and there is " That's Why We Don't Eat Animals ," but what we need is a series--a franchise that makes veganism appealing.

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