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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

Critter News

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison?

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Animal Companions

Animal Ethics

But this means that the apes appeal to animal-rights activists for precisely the wrong reason—namely, that they look like people and behave like people, while making no moral demands. They put less weight on our “moral emotions,” such as embarrassment, remorse, guilt, and penitence. They’re comparatively undemanding.

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