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Animal Rights and Vegetarianism
essays, pieces, articles, stories, commentaries, discourses
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Animals Deserve the Right to Life
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566 Words
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July, 2001
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Description: A short piece stating on opinion on Animal Rights and Vegetarianism.
Quote: "There is no justification for buying and purchasing meat to fill your stomach, and thus advancing an industry bent on carnage, when the Earth is so good as to give us food that is not conscious."
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Consideration of Moral Value
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581 Words
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July, 2001
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Description: An attempt to answer the question, Who or what deserves to be treated morally, and why?
Quote: "If a being has interests - either of avoiding pain, gaining pleasure, or future hopes and dreams - then this being deserves moral consideration and not only moral consideration, but they should be given an equal consideration of interests."
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Cruelty of Eating Meat, The
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398 Words
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February, 2002
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Description: Demonstrating the heartless nature of this religion's moral code.
Quote: "The church has condoned the evils of the world. Attaching shackles to slaves, it has enslaved races, as condoned by scripture..."
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Do Animals Deserve Rights?
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291 Words
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July, 2001
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Description: Brief opinion piece on the question of whether animals fit the idea of those whom we give rights to.
Quote: "...there certainly is no justification for killing someone because they are born with a different quantity of legs."
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Essential of Vegetarianism, The
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10,777 Words
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April, 2002
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Description: Philosophical justification for considering the rights of every conscious being, with refutations against arguments and nutrition information.
Quote: "Civilization defines it as the abstinance from meat. The heart defines it as humaneness in action -- the epitome of truth and kindness."
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Habit of Flesh Eating, The
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3,596 Words
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April, 2003
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Description: Inquiry into the justification for human rights, and then applying this idea to the animal rights.
Quote: "This admiration that we cast upon heroes of old, it is done so, with a silence on the matter of how we feel towards animals today. It is rarely brought up that the way slavers felt of African humans is identical to the way we feel towards animals..."
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Hunting: The Bloodsport
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3,648 Words
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May, 2005
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Description: The social, economic, and political nature of hunting, as well as a consideration of the act of hunting, how it effects the conscience.
Quote: "Few people hunt; good men are naturally repulsed by the sight of any violence."
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Moral Inquiries Regarding Beast
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588 Words
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June, 2001
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Description: Opening the door to the idea that non-human animals are deserving of fair treatment.
Quote: "I ask... does an animal have fewer rights than a human, simply because one is born with a different genome type?"
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Our Fellow Creatures
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832 Words
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May, 2002
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Description: Short piece that briefly outlines the reasons why animals deserve rights and our responsibility to them.
Quote: "There may be some sympathy for those animals, as to limit practices which cause excruciating suffering, but those may only be limited if they are brought to public light, and if legislators receive enough pressure from the public to change."
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Plea for Vegetarianism, A
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422 Words
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March, 2002
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Description: A plea delivered to a group of people that they abandon their habits that resulted in the exploitation of animals.
Quote: "Any animal -- whether it is human or non-human, tall or short, mammalian or non-mammalian, male or female, white or black -- is capable of consciousness."
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Politics of Diet, The
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6,468 Words
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April, 2005
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Description: Arguments on behalf of the Vegetarian ethic, claiming that it is a political question, that all animals deserve rights, and that diet is the primary reform.
Quote: "As progressive reformers, we are realizing that all of our fellow creatures on this planet can suffer like any man. For this reason alone, we offer them our sympathy, our hope, and a sense of justice that always seems fleeting."
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Should We Eat Meat?
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8,504 Words
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November, 2001
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Description: Short defense of the ethical considerations of eating meat, and then resources on nutrition and other information of the lifestyle.
Quote: "If it is wrong to judge on race, then it must be certainly wrong to judge someone one the quantity of legs, especially if you withhold the right to their life solely on physical characteristics."
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Treatise Against Vivisection, A
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2,344 Words
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April, 2002
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Description: Anti-animal experimentation letter sent to health charities that support this kind of abuse.
Quote: "Charity is the acceleration of human thought, the beautification of the soul, the memoirs of a person who believes in doing good..."
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Why I Am A Vegetarian
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294 Words
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June, 2001
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Description: Commentary briefly explaining the fundamentals of a Vegetarian or Animal Rights outlook.
Quote: "If judging on skin color is wrong, then certainly judging on the quantity of legs must also be wrong."
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