Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49).

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here are some highlights: Mantle: "How do you respond to: Yeah, you may find something that benefits humans, but it's not worth it and it's not ethically right?" Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans." And it's a very dispassionate discussion, but that's what makes it sickening.

Animal Liberation Front 100

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

There's a vague sense that perhaps he cares about the dogs or thinks that what he does to them might present an ethical dilemma, but the overwhelming feeling is that it's all worth it. Of course, "That's not to say dogs didn't have their niche in biomedicine. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Or mute babies?

Animal Welfare 100

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

So while it is generally agreed that it is wrong to experiment on human beings without their consent in the expectation of making scientific discoveries, there is no such general opposition to animal vivisection. Biological warfare against human beings is generally condemned but not biological warfare against animals.

Animal Cruelty 40

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