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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

Critter News

The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal.

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On "Evil"

Animal Person

In other words, the Law of Attraction tells them that if they start thinking about the "evil" in the world, they will bring evil to them. Are people who work in slaughterhouses and who vivisect their fellow sentient beings evil? They choose instead to focus on "higher" or "cleaner" matters. Is evil an excuse we make for people?

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

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.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

4) are abhorrent acts condemned by the vast majority of animal advocates and the organizations who represent them, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Peggy Cunniff Executive Director National Anti-Vivisection Society Chicago, Aug. The creeps in question should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.