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On "Discarded" Greyhounds

Animal Person

From and article by: Ms T Baker Co-ordinator, www.greytexploitations.com (which has that fabulous Racism=Speciesism=Sexism graphic on its front page) Dougie is the third greyhound in as many months – which we know of – to have been subjected to this kind of attack but sadly, he was the only one to survive.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

I think he also doesn't know that not all of us think that chasing down Class B dealers is as important as working to shut down animal experimentation and create more alternatives. "How long should one animal be used in the lab before it is euthanized?" isn't really on our list of questions (he asks that in the FB discussion). Maybe on paper.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

Philosophers make distinctions in order to focus attention on particular classes of things. It would be argued that to suppose that a bird’s life is less valuable than a human life is a form of speciesism, a doctrine of prejudice analogous to racism and sexism. KBJ: Martin has already made two distinctions.