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Animal Research Booming in State of Victoria

Critter News

Animals for research purposes are coming from municipal shelters, breeders and the greyhound trade. Unwanted farm dogs are another source. None of the animal shelters contacted by the Herald Sun have come across ex-research dogs in need of a home. The selling of dogs from the pound for this purpose is morally wrong.

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Julian H. Franklin on Animals and Plants

Animal Ethics

Animals as well as humans can suffer pain, deprivation, and unwanted death. An exception for vegetables is thus consistent with the categorical imperative; an exception for humans with respect to eating animals is not. Vegetables cannot. Hence there is a very fundamental and relevant sense in which we cannot harm a vegetable.