The Animals We Love, The Animals We Eat

Pets are family, but chickens are food products? A Quebec vet examines our two-faced relationship with animals
By Debbie Tacium Ladry
· illustration by julie Morstad
Ethics · From the October 2006 magazine
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AnonymousNovember 04, 2008 18:42 EST

Thank you for this important article!
As a vegan and loving pet-owner I share this same perspective about our relationship to animals. Hopefully the readers of this piece will also make the connection between the animals they love as pets and the ones they eat.

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