21. What's in a Classification?, by R. I. M. Dunbar
The domestic
dog provides us with a familiar example. The wild Australian dingo
looks rather similar to the native dogs from many parts of the Old
World, yet the last common ancestor that it shares with
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22. Animal Liberation at 30, by Peter Singer
was an issue for cat and dog lovers, best ignored by people
with more important things to write about. (That's why I wrote to
the editors of The New York Review with the suggestion that
they might
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23. The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals, by Marian Stamp Dawkins
the answers. A dog might show very strongly, if 'asked' in this
way, that he would rather not go to the vet. One could make out a
strong case for saying that he 'suffers' if forced to do so.
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24. Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by H. Lyn White...
example, he used the sign 'dog' for dogs, a picture of a dog in his viewmaster,
orang-utans on television, barking noises on the radio, birds,
horses, a tiger at the circus, a herd of cows, a picture of a
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25. Higher Laws, by Henry David Thoreau
good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd. I
have been surprised to consider that the only obvious employment,
except wood-chopping, ice-cutting, or the like business, which
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26. On Abstinence from Animal Food, by Porphyry
and
dogs, and many quadrupeds, such as goats, horses, sheep, asses,
and mules, would perish, if deprived of an association with
mankind. Nature, also, the fabricator of their frame, constituted
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27. A Vindication of Natural Diet, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 supereminence of man is
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28. The Post-Darwinian Transition, by David Pearce
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,
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29. Letter to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, by Jeremy Bentham
putting of
dogs and other inferior animals to pain, in the way of medical
experiment, when that experiment has a determinate object,
beneficial to mankind, accompanied
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30. A Utilitarian View, by Jeremy Bentham
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,
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