In "The Inhumanity of the Animal People," Joy Williams speaks of the injustice that befalls animals at the hands of humans. Williams says "The fact that animals are voiceless is a relief to us, it frees us from feeling much emathy or sorrow" (Williams 1). If animals could speak, feeling empathy or sorrow would not be guaranteed as it probably would make no difference given man would continue to use animals to his benefit. "Catholic moral textbooks instruct that we have no duties of ju

In "A Vindication of Natural Diet," Percy Shelley speaks of how it is meant for man to be frugivorous(fruit-eating) not carnivorous(meat-eating). Shelley says "There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried" (Shelley 12). Shelley emphasizes that those who want to take up the vegetable diet must stop at once and not gradually. Shelley believes that man should not eat animals. Her reason for this is not because she believes in animals rights, but because she thinks that animals carry disease and it is not the natural diet of man to eat meat.

It appears that in our society animals are viewed as machines (2). "In the laboratory, animals have already been reclassified. Rats and mice are already excluded from the very definition of 'animal' by the Department of Agriculture" (3). By reclassifying these

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