11. Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?, by James Rachels
humans
and animals which would justify us in denying that right to
animals while at the same time granting it to humans. If not, then
the right in question is a right possessed by animals as well as
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12. A Vegetarian Philosophy, by Peter Singer
however, was not from animals killed specially for him; the
animals would have died anyway, even if he were a strict
vegetarian or had not been in that city at all. Hence, by eating
it, he was not
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13. An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism, by Peter S. Wenz
vegetation that animals can eat. People can make nutritional use
of this land only by eating the animals raised upon it. However,
this method of deliberately raising animals for food also degrades
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14. A Critique of Kant, by Arthur Schopenhauer
there are no duties to animals. All this is
revoltingly crude, a barbarism of the West, the source of which is
to be found in Judaism. In philosophy it rests, despite all
evidence to the contrary,
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15. Contextual Moral Vegetarianism, by Deane Curtin
of nonhuman
animals. Typical of the wealth of evidence she presents are the
following: the connection of women and animals through
pornographic representations of women as "meat" ready to be
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16. 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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17. The Animal Rights Library : Modern Texts
Movement
All Animals Are Equal
Do Animals Feel Pain?
Animal Liberation at 30
A Vegetarian Philosophy
The Forgotten Animal Issue
Learning from Henry Spira
Fighting to Win
The
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18. The Animal Rights Library : Modern Authors & Texts
Movement
All Animals Are Equal
Do Animals Feel Pain?
Animal Liberation at 30
A Vegetarian Philosophy
The Forgotten Animal Issue
The Forgotten Animal Issue
Fighting to Win
The
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19. 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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20. The Ethic of Reverence for Life, by Albert Schweitzer
maltreatment of animals, when the cries of thirsting creatures go
up unnoticed from the railway trucks, when there is so much
roughness in our slaughter-houses, when in our kitchens so many
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