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R. G. Frey on Animal Suffering

Animal Ethics

Nothing I have said in earlier chapters and nothing I will say in subsequent chapters is intended to deny this fact, which animal rightists correctly insist upon. But animals lack that reflective awareness which enables us to see our experiences and acts as our own (and thereby, of course, unlike animals, to be responsible for our acts). (

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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

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Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.

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Giveaway: FlexPet

4 The Love Of Animals

A bit more about FlexPet: Thanks to the wonders of CM8™, animals suffering with joint diseases such as arthritis, bursitis, osteochondrosis (OCD), hip dysplasia and other degenerative problems with the shoulders, elbows and stifle joint can experience long-term relief without drugs.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Rock & Rawhide is a newly formed 501(c)3 organization whose primary mission is to increase the level of adoptions for dogs and cats in kill shelters by decreasing the stress these animals experience through distraction therapy. They do this by providing toys and other items.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Our findings follow many other studies demonstrating mental anguish in traumatized animals. Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience. I was astonished by how many displayed behaviors that overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other trauma-related disorders.

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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

A few signs that YOU may need Rescue: you can not stop rescuing animals. your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. you stop having fun because you feel guilty when there are so many animals currently suffering. you lose interest in social activities and friends.

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

Animal Ethics

Whereas it once used to be argued, as by Newman , that the least human good compensates for any possible amount of animal suffering, the current doctrine is that it requires a considerable good to compensate for such suffering.