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There Is Increasing Social Concern About Our Use Of Nonhumans For Experiments, Food, Clothing And Entertainment. This Concern About Animals Reflects Both Our Own Moral Development As A Civilization And Our Recognition That The Differences Between Humans And Animals Are, For The Most Part, Differences Of Degree And Not Of Kind.

We Do Not Think Clearly About Our Moral Obligations To Animals.

There Is No Difference Between Sitting Around The Pit Watching Dogs Fight And Sitting Around A Summer Barbecue Roasting The Corpses Of Tortured Animals Or Enjoying The Dairy Or Eggs From Tortured Animals.

We Proclaim Human Intelligence To Be Morally Valuable Per Se Because We Are Human. If We Were Birds, We Would Proclaim The Ability To Fly As Morally Valuable Per Se. If We Were Fish, We Would Proclaim The Ability To Live Underwater As Morally Valuable Per Se. But Apart From Our Obviously Self-interested Proclamations, There Is Nothing Morally Valuable Per Se About Human Intelligence.

People Need To Be Educated So That They Can Make Intelligent Moral Choices