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Article: Speciesism: Humans really are special
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ASHER MEIR ASHER MEIR
Jerusalem Post
08-24-2009
Speciesism: Humans really are special
Byline: ASHER MEIR ASHER MEIR
Edition: Daily
Section: Economics
Memo: ETHICS @ WORK. Asher Meir is research director at the Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem, an independent institute in the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev).
Recently, in another forum, I wrote a series of articles on the topic of animal suffering. I presented a traditional Jewish view of the matter, which is based on the Biblical idea that man, who alone is created in the divine image, has dominion over the animals and therefore may exploit them for his use. But since animals are also G- d's creatures, and since we owe ...