Why I am a Vegan

[Diana]

Thanks Nia. I am going to post the opening paragraph here. The article was written by Marc Bekoff, Ph.D. for Psychology Today.

Murder, She Didn't Write: Why Can Only
Humans be Murdered?

It's time to change the language we use for writing about killing other animals.

It's well known that the language we use to refer to nonhuman animals (animals) can be used to hide or sanitize the often rather egregious ways in which we use, harm, and kill them. Words such as euthanize, dispatch, harvest, and cull are frequently used to refer to instances in which people with different motivations and intentions, kill healthy animals, usually "in the name of humans." It's about time these polite words are changed to the harsher word, murder, because that's what it really is. However, time again, others and I are told that only humans can be murdered, because that's the way legal systems view killing other-than-human animals.
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I will add that this article is not pushing vegetarianism or veganism, for those who might avoid it because of that.