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(2012) Animal suffering, Dordrecht, Springer.
What is happening to other animals in human hands is not "normality', nor even "cruelty', but rather "violence'. Non-human suffering does not "just exist', nor can it be reduced to rare acts of sadism; it is not inevitable or exceptional, but, rather, the consequence of anthropocentric hierarchies and the types of egoism that they feed. That is, the suffering of other animals is all too often the consequence of human actions carried out in the name of human gain and power.
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Aaltola, E. (2012). Concluding words, in Animal suffering, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 206-209.
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