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“Fairness doesn't always mean treating everyone the same.”
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“Veganic gardening is organic gardening that's done with consideration for the animals who may be affected by it.”
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“We're taught from birth to see some animals as friends and other animals as food. Why?”
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“Giving moral consideration to someone means taking into account how they will be affected by our actions.”
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“Those with discriminatory attitudes think about others not as who they are but as what they are not. ”
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“Would you help a deer caught in a leghold trap? Would you help her if her leg were caught by a natural accident?”
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“The way most animals are treated is determined by human preferences rather than by what's best for them.”
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“Other animals feel pleasure, pain, affection, sadness, fear, frustration and anger.”
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“Speciesism is an ideology that makes it seem normal and natural to discriminate against members of other species.”
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Intro to Veganic Gardening
by J. Muir Veganic gardening is a system of gardening that is done with respect for the sentient beings who are affected by the growing of plants. It is done without chemicals and without animal products, which are typically used in both conventional and organic growing. The methods used allow us to minimize the harm [...]
Should We Help Free Animals?
Animal rights theorist Tom Regan famously said that our only obligation to free living animals is “to let them be.” At first thought, this sounds right. We might think that interfering in nature can lead to disastrous results, and if we were to try to help every free living animal who was suffering from disease [...]
Discrimination
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Moral consideration
In many situations in which we act we try to make sure our actions don’t harm others, or are actually beneficial to them. This means that we are taking others into account. We consider how they would be affected by our actions. This is moral consideration. Moral consideration has to do both with other individuals [...]
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Discrimination
Those with discriminatory attitudes think about others not as who they are but as what they are not. Many people have prejudices against other individuals. These prejudices lead them to treat those they have prejudices against worse than they would treat other individuals whom they don’t have prejudices against. We recognize these as cases of [...]
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A Class Divided
In 1968, 3rd grade teacher Jane Elliott taught her students about discrimination by dividing them into two groups by eye color. On the first day, the blue eyed students were treated as if they were superior and were encouraged to discriminate against the brown eyed students. On the second day, they switched places. The experiment [...]
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Animals as Resources
An activist on trial in Hawaii for rescuing and releasing dolphins who were in captivity tried to defend himself by claiming that he committed the lesser crime of “stealing” the dolphins in order to prevent the greater crime of animal cruelty. The judge laughed at his defense and pointed out that theft is a felony [...]
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What is speciesism?
Speciesism is an ideology (a set of beliefs) that makes discrimination against the members of other species seem normal and natural. We’re socialized from birth to see human characteristics and abilities as the ideal standard against which all others are measured. It’s so embedded in our culture and in our thinking that it seems natural [...]
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