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The slaughter of dolphins and other marine mammals is no more horrible than captive dolphins performing tricks because it's not just dolphins were talking about, it's also people. Especially children [...] The effect is devastatingly the same because millions of people every year who watch and cheer this spectacle of dominance are in some way also cheering every other form of environmental ravishment. If dolphin is a reference point in our relationship with nature, then when we teach people that
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― To Free a Dolphin
― To Free a Dolphin
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That animals can’t be moral agents doesn’t seem to be relevant to their status as moral patients.
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― Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases
― Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases
