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• Additionally, “66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.”
• His writings on the subject began as a 1973 book review of the 1971 book, Animals, Men and Morals, edited by Stanley Godlovitch, Roslind Godlovitch, and John Harris. It contained an essay by Ruth Harrison whose own book, Animal Machines, about factory farming, had been published in 1964. In 1965, Brigid Brophy wrote “The Rights of Animals.” That es...
• The human body lacks killing and defending features like claws, fangs, and tough skin. As reflected in their bodies, humans are naturally peaceable, cooperative, respectful, and perspicacious, with a live-andlet-live attitude toward members of other species that is adaptive as even small animals have sharp teeth, claws, venom, and a will to live.7
• three plant or animal species go extinct per hour according to the preeminent biologist Edward O. Wilson,16
• Europeans set to work on the human beings who had inhabited the Americas for many thousands of years, as recently as 1879, arguing in court that an American Indian was not a “person” under the law.