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DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1
(0:0 – 12:8):
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Fake Meat and Real Questions: The Fake Meat Industry Claims Moral Innocence — But In A Fallen World, Innocence Is An Impossibility

LA TIMES (CORIE BROWN)
Why California is the Capital of Fake Meat

NEW YORK TIMES (JULIE CRESWELL)
Plant-Based Food Companies Face Critics: Environmental Advocates

PART 2
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Kidney Transplants to Humans from Pigs? Thinking About Distinctions Within Creation, and The Value Of Humans As Image Bearers

USA TODAY (KAREN WEINTRAUB)
Pig Kidneys to the Rescue? Groundbreaking Transplant A Step Toward Solving Organ Shortage

NEW YORK TIMES (RONI CARYN RABIN)
In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human, and It Worked

PART 3
(16:40 – 23:40):
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‘A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy?’: The Animal Rights Movement And Its Direct Denial of Human Dignity

PETA (INGRID NEWKIRK)
A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy

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