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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." Isn't it better for science, and more humane, to use just one animal?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 1 of 13

Animal Ethics

On the traditional position, justification of vegetarianism was in terms of animal welfare, happiness, rights, and so on. In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Each argument has an audience.