With Amazon listing my upcoming book A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy for presale, I thought I should set up a blog solely devoted to the animal rights issue. We discuss those matters here at SHS, of course, and will still. But it is only one piece of the human exceptionalism pie—albeit, an important piece—and I have found it difficult give the matter proper consideration here given all the other issues coming down the pike. So, as if I didn’t have anything else to do, I launched it today.
For anyone interested, here’s the link.
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