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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

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Be cautious in repeating claims you find on the Web, especially those made by members of chat groups. Find the Databases Databases are loaded wit information relating to animal use in laboratories! It is not a free country for animals in laboratories, but it is a comparatively free one for you. Get FOIAed Up!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. and Barnum & Bailey are dedicated to providing the very best of care for all our animals, especially the Asian elephant.

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Tom Regan on Human Chauvinism

Animal Ethics

With the argument of the present chapter serving as the backdrop, the conclusion we reach is that to deny consciousness or a mental life to mammalian animals is an expression of human chauvinism. (

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

We are an animal welfare group working for animals in India— www.hopeandanimal.org we have tie up with a US based company for fund raising—If you buy pet products from www.petmedusa.net 10% of sale proceeds are donated to our organisation—Pls Bid and buy the product. with regards, Praveen Ohal

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

I am a long time vegetarian, now vegan for 10 years, and animal lover.

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Tom Regan on Rights

Animal Ethics

a despot) or any group (e.g., Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 267-8 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983]) a legislative assembly). If there are moral rights, they do not "come to be" in the way legal rights do. (

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

In the past I have been concerned to advocate a normative utilitarian theory from the point of view of a non-cognitivist meta-ethics. In advocating utilitarianism to a group of people I therefore had to express my feelings and appeal to their feelings. I described the feelings to which I wished to appeal as "generalized benevolence."

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