Sentence examples for sensible animal from inspiring English sources

In his thought-provoking essay The Toxoplasma of Rage, the American blogger Scott Alexander asked why Peta gets more attention than more sensible animal charities, and why Rolling Stone's flimsy patchily sourced account of an alleged rape on a college campus became a cause celebre rather than the many, many cast-iron cases that exist.

Clearly, the porpoises have taken no notice, sensible animals that they are.

Ratty and Mole and Badger live like sensible animals; runaway capitalism is Mr. Toad.

Especially in the summer, when all sensible animals are lounging in splendid estivation.

Like other sensible animals, cats sleep 18 to 20 hours a day, and occupy their waking hours with food and entertainment.

Aristotle, according to Avempace, classified the science of animals into four sections: 1) properties of the sensible parts of animals, 2) properties of their limbs, 3) properties of their homogeneous sensible parts, and 4) properties of their non-homogeneous sensible parts (Ibn Bâjja 2002a, Ḥayawân, p. 76).

There is no consensus about the extent to which slaughter of conscious, meaning sensible and/or aware, animals causes them pain and distress.

To the Editor: Given that our current system for producing meat inflicts pain on animals, the sensible response is to change the system, not the animals.

His heart and head are both in the right place: in these pages he attacks sentimental vegetarianism, commends organic food and agriculture, recommends spending a larger slice of our disposable income on decent food instead of battery chickens, gives all the correct arguments against genetically modified food and shows himself to be sensible and sincere about animal welfare and the environment.

The author distinguished between three hierarchy levels: Apathic-, sensible- and intelligent animals, respectively.

Of course, no sensible person reads The Dying Animal by Philip Roth only for the sex.