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A Blind Eye to Animal Rights?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Andrew Johnson
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Philosophy , Volume 64 , Issue 248 , April 1989 , pp. 255 - 260
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1989

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