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Dates: during 2008-2008
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...moral convictions of such men did not require abstract theories of rights for support. Nor do Scully??s. “We are called to treat [animals] with kindness,” he writes, “not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Maverick for Mercy | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...this moral basis sounds simple, its implications are radical. The New York Times called Scully??s book, “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy,” “horrible, wonderful, [and] important” and, reading his descriptions of factory farming, it’s easy to see why. A journalist by training, Scully traveled to a typical industrial hog farm in North Carolina—owned by the nation’s largest pork producer—and documented what...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Maverick for Mercy | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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