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Becoming Sensitized to Animals in Books

Critter News

Here is one example. When Paul Farmer was a medical student, he had to do a vivisection. The next morning the priest made a joke of the whole thing by waking Farmer up the next morning by pretending to be a dog and scratching at Farmer's door. He was disturbed by it. He had to take a life to save humans.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on Animal Suffering

Animal Ethics

They had a direct effect on seventeenth-century behavior as manifested, for example, in the popularity of public vivisections, not as an aid to scientific discovery but simply as a technical display. These teachings, it should be observed, were more than metaphysical speculations.