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101. Animal Ethics: Animals

to you? Do you live with a dog or a cat? Does your dog’s or cat’s suffering matter, morally? Why should one animal’s suffering matter morally but not another’s? Isn’t that like saying that white suffering counts

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102. Animal Ethics: Rattus Rattus

Sanctuary Satya Save Dogs Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians St Francis Foundation for Animals SuperVegan TAILS Tierethik Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive, The Vegan 4U Vegan Blog Vegan Bodybuilding &

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103. Animal Ethics: Obesity

New York Times Dog Update Dog Fighting No Good Deed Goes Unpunished SoyJoy Mylan Obesity From the Mailbag ► September (9) ►

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104. Animal Ethics: Twenty Years Ago

New York Times Dog Update Dog Fighting No Good Deed Goes Unpunished SoyJoy Mylan Obesity From the Mailbag ► September (9) ►

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105. Animal Ethics: Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) on Moral Patienthood

But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question is not,

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106. Animal Ethics: Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce Dog, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations, takes, in the affection of

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107. Animal Ethics: Canine Companions

found the same behavior in dogs. In 1997, researchers in the United States used DNA techniques to estimate that dogs may have been domesticated as long as 135,000 years ago—previously scientists had thought dogs became domesticated only

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108. Animal Ethics: Human Predators

We might say, "Bad dog," but we don't think that the dog is responsible for its conduct. Animals are like mentally defective humans in this respect.To cut to the chase, only humans are morally responsible. That animals harm each other,

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109. Animal Ethics: Richard D. Ryder on Speciesist Language

So, if I believe a dog is angry then I say so, and if she is a dog who feels angry with speciesists, then I sympathize!(Richard D. Ryder, Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism [Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989], 2)

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110. Animal Ethics: From Today's New York Times

the Editor: Re “Hero Dog From Afghan Base Is Killed by Mistake in Arizona ” (front page, Nov. 19): The story of Target, the Afghan hero Dog, is truly heartbreaking. The important lesson, however, one that would add to Target’s

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