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New Book Shows Mark Twain an Early Advocate Against Animal Cruelty

Critter News

A new book by author and Stanford professor Shelly Fisher Fishkin reveals that Mark Twain was an early advocate against animal cruelty. Called Mark Twain's Book of Animals , the book contains a number of his writing about animals. The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection. Interesting.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

There is far from being a precise analogy, however, between the importance attached to animal and to human suffering. So while it is generally agreed that it is wrong to experiment on human beings without their consent in the expectation of making scientific discoveries, there is no such general opposition to animal vivisection.