If we really understand what it means for a being to have moral status, it's something that animals have a right to; they have a right not to be killed and eaten for food and used in a variety of other ways to satisfy human desires.
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I'm very extreme about this. Animals have just as much right not to be killed and eaten for food, or to be enslaved, as you or I have. That's what I mean when I say that humans and animals are morally equivalent.
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Veganism is a moral imperative; in my book I call it the vegan imperative.
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One has to think about is what's morally right, not what's economically advantageous. Are we going to let economics trump what's right?
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riate at a time of political, economic and environmental meltdown. Like it or not our values and priorities must be reappraised lest our planet becomes utterly enveloped by the market forces of greed and avarice under the guise of growth and progress.
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Pleading that we are entitled to snuff out a life in order to accommodate a fleeting taste is an argument that wouldn't stand a chance in court were the victim human.
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Albert Schweitzer, who accomplished so much for both humans and animals in his lifetime, put it this way: "A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist …. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves one's sympathy … nor, beyond that, whether and to what degree it is capable of feeling".
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Animals In Our Brain: Mickey Mouse, Teddy Bears, and "Cuteness" | Psychology Today - 0 views
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"a specific part of your brain that is hardwired to rapidly detect creatures of the nonhuman kind ..
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(1) the response of cells in the amygdala are independent of the emotional content of the pictures - cute, ugly, and dangerous animals were processed similarly
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(2) only cells in the right amygdala were responsive to seeing animals.
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Por negligencia el Senado de EE.UU. legaliza la zoofilia en el Ejército - RT - 0 views
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Así, por negligencia de los senadores que solo querían despenalizar las relaciones homosexuales se legalizó también el sexo con animales en el Ejército de EE. UU.
Articulo completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/tiempolibre/curiosidades/issue_33419.html
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acupuntura veterinaria - 0 views
Was Immigrant Allowed to Stay Because of His Cat? Read more: http://www.care2.com/caus... - 0 views
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a foreigner had been allowed to stay in the UK because of the human rights issues involved with owning a cat,
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"Es de gran importancia el conocimiento que estas personas nos están impartiendo, porque el maltrato animal nos compete a los diferentes organismos de seguridad del estado, y por eso es necesario estar al tanto de las herramientas jurídicas en las cuales nos podemos apoyar para corregir estas actitudes deplorables en contra de los animales".
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"Es de gran importancia el conocimiento que estas personas nos están impartiendo, porque el maltrato animal nos compete a los diferentes organismos de seguridad del estado, y por eso es necesario estar al tanto de las herramientas jurídicas en las cuales nos podemos apoyar para corregir estas actitudes deplorables en contra de los animales".
