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Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance.
Each of us can help bring an end to these terrible things by not eating animals, not wearing animals, not purchasing products tested on animals, and not consuming animal products.
(e) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that were tested on animals when equally effective cruelty-free products are available. (f) f) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that contain animal ingredients. (g) h) Don’t attend circuses that contain nonhuman animal acts. (i)
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4, 2009 To the Editor: I have been a strict vegetarian most of my life, and, as such, I have never lacked reasons—ethical, economic and health-related—to continue this lifestyle. He stated that the department could demand mandatory testing, but that it had to consider what effect that would have on companies as well as consumers.
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