Critter News
JUNE 7, 2009
For all of you who think there are no moral quandaries to vivisection and animal research, read this. Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research. At least someone who has conducted animal research has a conscience and is willing to write about it. In fact, read the whole 5-part series in Slate.
Animal Person
JUNE 27, 2009
The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Film Language. There's no remotely vegan or even vegetarian (though I'm not even sure what the latter would look like) message. And then the way we eat causes diabetes.
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Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Medical schools, in particular, made ample use of them for education and research in surgery and cardiology." And for what?
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 4, 2007
Some, such as my niece's Tag, are utterly spoiled. They have the best food money can buy, climate-controlled shelter, comfortable bedding, ample exercise, liberty to move about, toys to play with, and medical care (including control of parasites). Inequality per se is morally irrelevant. In terms of welfare (i.e.,
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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