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Julian H. Franklin on Animals and Plants

Animal Ethics

Animals as well as humans can suffer pain, deprivation, and unwanted death. Vegetables cannot. Hence there is a very fundamental and relevant sense in which we cannot harm a vegetable. The head of lettuce and the flower, however, feel nothing and regret nothing so far as we know.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

Desperate to drive up prices by stemming the gusher of unwanted milk, a dairy industry group, the National Milk Producers Federation, has been paying farmers to send herds to slaughter. Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide."

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From the Animal Rights Action Network re: Greyhounds

Animal Person

Today it is a different situation, i learned from then about respecting animals and my life has been devoted to ending their suffering and torment.