1. Animal Rights, Endangered Species and Human Survival, by Lewis Regenstein
extinct, Steller's sea cow and
the sea mink. Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis stelleri),
also called the giant sea cow, was first discovered in 1741 by a
German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller on
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2. Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?, by James Rachels
a case of cruelty to a cow: "He (the culprit) struck
the cow with a milking-stool. It fell to the ground and died."
It! One's thoughts turn to the milking-stool, but the allusion
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3. Brave New Farm?, by Jim Mason
in milk production per cow have levelled off since
1972; egg production per hen has levelled off at about 230 eggs
per year; and pigs saved per sow have actually decreased since
1969. Now that data
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4. Like Driving a Cadillac, by Frances Moore Lappé
can't eat grass. Unlike cows, they need a source of
protein. But it doesn't have to be grain. Although prepared feed
played an important role in the past, chickens also scratched the
barnyard for
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5. Ask No Questions, by Peter Jenkins
Temerlin's keep an electric cow prod.
Lucy was
unpredictably boisterous. Suddenly she would vault over the sofa.
She disappeared into the kitchen, reentered flying
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6. A Vindication of Natural Diet, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
domestic hog, the sheep, the cow, and the dog, are subject
to an incredible variety of distempers; and, like the corrupters
of their nature, have physicians who thrive upon their miseries.
The
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7. Constraints and Animals, by Robert Nozick
place to swing it stands a cow. Swinging the bat
unfortunately would involve smashing the cow's head. But I
wouldn't get fun from doing that; the pleasure comes from
exercising my muscles, swinging
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8. The Rights of Animals and Future Generations, by Joel Feinberg
no mute cow or horse can do that. But although the possibility of
hiring, agreeing, contracting, approving, directing, canceling,
releasing, waiving, and instructing is present in the typical (all
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9. Diet and Diet Reform, by Mohandas Gandhi
we have vegetarians in the cow and the
bull—which are better vegetarians than we are—but there is
something much higher which calls us to vegetarianism. Therefore I
thought that during the few
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