Is It Ethical to Keep Pets?

Your answer depends on how important you think your own comfort is.

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The primary product of pets these days is comfort. From another point of view, the primary labor they perform is service. And I’m not going to argue that that has no value, or that pets don’t benefit from their relationships with pet owners. I am going to point out that there is an impact on the animals we keep as pets, an impact on our…