We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans

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This quote by Peter Singer is a call to end animal use and human slavery. Both of these practices treat animals as if they are things to be owned by humans when in reality, animals are sentient beings with feelings, thoughts, and feelings. They cannot be treated as tools or commodities that are owned by humans.

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