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People Don't Hate That You're Vegan, But Why

"While someone telling us they're trying to lose a couple of pounds does not say anything about our own weight, someone telling us that they avoid certain products out of a concern for our common planet and the other beings on it implies that everyone ought to act according to these same concerns."

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Ambassador or Slave? A Reflection on The Use of Animals in Zoos

"The idea of an involuntary ambassadorship makes as much sense as any other form of so-called employment in which the 'employee' doesn't have the option to quit and in which she has no say at all regarding the terms of her employment. The term for that kind of an arrangement is immediately recognizable when applied to humans. We call it 'slavery'."

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