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Do animals count?
From pets to farms to endangered species, how far does what we owe other living beings extend, and in the name of what: reason, suffering, life, or the balance of the whole?
The question at dinner
Sunday evening. Your nine-year-old daughter is back from a petting farm where she spent the afternoon stroking piglets; one of them was called Biscuit. For dinner there is pasta with ham. She puts down her fork, looks at the dog lying under the table, then at you: "Why do we eat pigs and not Rex? They're just as nice." The whole table waits for your answer. What do you tell her?