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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
— Marquis de Sade
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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.
— William Pitt
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They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free…
— J M Coetzee
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much…
— Wendell Berry
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Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?" Homer: "Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.
— Matt Groening
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My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence…
— Rynn Berry
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I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water;…
— Erik Satie
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Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that…
— Rube Goldberg
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It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living…
— Kató Lomb
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It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ...…
— Ron Reagan
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Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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