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  • Nonhuman animals merit moral status comparable to that of human beings

    Nonhuman animals merit moral status comparable to that of human beings

    More than seventy billion nonhuman land animals are killed worldwide for human consumption every year; if we include sea creatures, the number almost certainly exceeds a trillion annually. But we give little thought to the inner subjective lives of nonhuman animals and the remarkable extent to which their lives are in important respects very much…

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