171. A Critique of Kant, by Arthur Schopenhauer
gulf between man and animal in order
to represent them as fundamentally different, in spite of all
evidence to the contrary. ... In the end animals would be quite
incapable of distinguishing
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172. Human Beasts of Prey and Fellow-Suffering, by Richard Wagner
to slay the animals and feed upon their flesh and blood; and that
this compulsion was no mere consequence of his removal into colder
climes, as those assert who deem the consumption of animal-food in
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173. Fighting to Win, by Henry Spira
coalition of more than 400 animal rights and animal welfare
groups, which I initiated. The Coalition has been unusually
successful for an animal rights campaign, in that it compelled the
commercial
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174. Chimpanzees’ Use of Sign Language, by Roger S. Fouts & Deborah H. Fouts
ask where our conception of animal nature comes from. The
answer is that our conception of animal nature does not come from
the non-human animals themselves, but from our preconceived
concepts of human
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175. On the Eating of Flesh, by Plutarch
his lips the flesh of a dead animal, and
having set before people courses of ghastly corpses and ghosts,
could give those parts the names of meat and victuals, that but a
little before lowed, cried,
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176. Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap, by Jane Goodall
for the plight of nonhuman animals in
our society. But those who are trying to raise levels of awareness
regarding the abuse of companion animals, animals raised for food,
zoo and circus performers,
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177. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
races, women, children and animals. Western
philosophy continued this imperious attitude with the views of
Descartes, who proposed that animals were just like machines with
no significant language,
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178. Why Darwinians Should Support Equal Treatment for Other Great Apes, by James...
our view about how animals may be treated. It does not follow that
we must treat all animals as the equals of humans, for there may
still be differences between humans and some animals that justify
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179. The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity, by Bernard Mandeville
killing of so many animals for their daily food, as long as the
bountiful earth so plentifully provides them with varieties of
vegetable dainties. I know that reason excites our compassion but
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180. The World is a Mighty Slaughterhouse, by William A. Alcott
with the taking away of animal life—especially
the lives of our own domestic animals, often endeared to us by many interesting
circumstances of their history, or of our own, in relation to them—cannot be
otherwise than unhappy in its
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