Critter News
JUNE 7, 2009
For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animal research, read this. At least someone who has conducted animal research has a conscience and is willing to write about it. They just want to take away our rights to research!" In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate.
Critter News
MARCH 21, 2012
But I want to be able to argue about it intelligently, citing science, not just morals. I've finally decided to take the plunge and really learn about animal experimentation. It's a horrible topic and I post news articles about the abuses from time to time. Many times tests fail. A drug may work on an animal, but fail miserably on a human.
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 16, 2007
To inflict death or pain on animals for scientific or medical research is wrong morally, and ought to be prohibited. This does not mean that animals may never be deliberately harmed or become subjects of research. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 125)
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
He writes as if what he used to do--and what he defends--is morally justifiable on its face, and it's just the details that might be questionable. Wouldn't you at some point say: That's not right--we need to stop that immediately and put our money and energy into finding alternative ways of performing medical research.
Critter News
JULY 25, 2009
and an accountant and an economist and any other "expert" that uses their field to claim a moral authority. Just because you can tell me that a cell mutates does not mean that you have the moral authority to tell me what kind of society I should live in. And who is making that subjective decision?
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