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An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

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We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

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We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

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If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

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Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

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If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

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The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

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We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we ...

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Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, w...

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So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

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I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

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Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

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Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

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I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

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Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and ...

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Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism ...

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Even if we ourselves are not personally scandalized by the notion of other animals as close relative...

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Carl SaganShadows of Forgotten Ancestors