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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to…
— Jonis Agee
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On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and…
— Michael McCaul
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Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have…
— Max Lucado
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We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who…
— John Salazar
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Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed…
— Peter Singer
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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
— Mitch Albom
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Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables,…
— James H. Douglas, Jr.
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