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09 Feb 15
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers. Animal rights advocates are pressing government agencies to impose heavy restrictions on animal research. But this growing criticism of painful experimentation on animals is matched by a growing concern over the threat restrictions on the use of animals would pose to scientific progress. Whether such experiments should be allowed to continue has become a matter for public debate.
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Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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Moreover, it is argued, the lives of all creatures, great and small, have value and are worthy of respect. This right to be treated with respect does not depend on an ability to reason. An insane person has a right to be treated with respect, yet he or she may not be able to act rationally.
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Speciesism" is as arbitrarily unjust as racism or sexism. The right to be treated with respect rests, rather, on a creature's being a "subject of a life," with certain experiences, preferences, and interests. Animals, like humans, are subjects of a life. Justice demands that the interests of animals be respected, which includes respect for their interest to be spared undeserved pain.
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. Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit. Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit. In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live. And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives. It is only out of sheer habit or ease that scientists continue to inflict pain on animals when, in fact, alternatives exist. And, where alternatives don't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them.
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05 Feb 15
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20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually
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st 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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26 May 14
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In the spring of 1987, a veterinary lab at the University of California at Davis was destroyed by a fire that caused $3.5 million in damage. Credit for the fire was claimed by the Animal Liberation Front, a clandestine international group committed to halting experimentation on animals. Three years earlier, members of the group invaded the Experimental Head Injury Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where scientists had been engaged in research on head trauma, a condition which now claims more that 50,000 lives a year. They took videotapes recording the deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons. Copies of the videotape were sent to the media, to University officials, and to government agencies which eventually suspended federal funds for the experiments.
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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"Speciesism" is as arbitrarily unjust as racism or sexism. The right to be treated with respect rests, rather, on a creature's being a "subject of a life," with certain experiences, preferences, and interests. Animals, like humans, are subjects of a life. Justice demands that the interests of animals be respected, which includes respect for their interest to be spared undeserved pain.
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Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit. Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit.
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In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live.
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These benefits to humans far outweigh the costs in suffering that relatively few animals have had to endure. Society has an obligation to maximize the opportunities to produce such beneficial consequences, even at the cost of inflicting some pain on animals.
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Furthermore, many argue, while the lives of animals may be deserving of some respect, the value we place on their lives does not count as much as the value we place on human lives.
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Moreover, if we move to consider animals as our moral equals, where do we draw the line?
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Mice or men? Where do our moral obligations lie? The debate over painful experimentation on animals enjoins us to consider the wrongfulness of inflicting pain and the duty to respect the lives of all creatures, while also considering our obligations to promote human welfare and prevent human suffering, animals aside.
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25 Mar 14
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers. Animal rights advocates are pressing government agencies to impose heavy restrictions on animal research. But this growing criticism of painful experimentation on animals is matched by a growing concern over the threat restrictions on the use of animals would pose to scientific progress. Whether such experiments should be allowed to continue has become a matter for public debate.
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Those who argue that painful experimentation on animals should be halted, or at least curtailed, maintain that pain is an intrinsic evil, and any action that causes pain to another creature is simply not morally permissible. Pointing to the words of the nineteenth-century utilitarian, Jeremy Bentham, animal welfare advocates claim that the morally relevant question about animals is not "Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer ?" And, animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain. The researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way. Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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Moreover, it is argued, the lives of all creatures, great and small, have value and are worthy of respect. This right to be treated with respect does not depend on an ability to reason. An insane person has a right to be treated with respect, yet he or she may not be able to act rationally. Nor does a right to be treated with respect rest on being a member of a certain species. Restricting respect for life to a certain species is to perform an injustice similar to racism or sexism. Like the racist who holds that respect for other races does not count as much as respect for his or her own race, those who support painful experimentation on animals assume that respect for other species does not count as much as respect for members of his or her own species. "Speciesism" is as arbitrarily unjust as racism or sexism. The right to be treated with respect rests, rather, on a creature's being a "subject of a life," with certain experiences, preferences, and interests. Animals, like humans, are subjects of a life. Justice demands that the interests of animals be respected, which includes respect for their interest to be spared undeserved pain.
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21 Mar 14
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03 Mar 14
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18 Dec 13
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The researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way. Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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19 Nov 13
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Those who argue that painful experimentation on animals should be halted, or at least curtailed, maintain that pain is an intrinsic evil, and any action that causes pain to another creature is simply not morally permissible.
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animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain. The researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way.
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit.
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Indeed, pain is an evil to be minimized, and scientists do work to minimize pain when possible. Contrary to sensationalistic reports of animal rights activists, scientists are not a society of crazed, cruel, curiosity seekers. But there are instances when the use of alternatives, such as painkillers, would interfere with research that promises to vastly improve the quality and duration of human lives.
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16 Apr 13
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03 Apr 13
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26 Mar 13
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Three years earlier, members of the group invaded the Experimental Head Injury Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where scientists had been engaged in research on head trauma, a condition which now claims more that 50,000 lives a year
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments
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Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit
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25 Mar 13
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually,
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An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments
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Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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ats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way
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If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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Moreover, it is argued, the lives of all creatures, great and small, have value and are worthy of respect
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Justice demands that the interests of animals be respected, which includes respect for their interest to be spared undeserved pain.
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Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit.
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In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps.
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polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live.
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where alternatives don't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them.
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Animal research has been the basis for new vaccines, new cancer therapies, artificial limbs and organs, new surgical techniques, and the development of hundreds of useful products and materials.
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Society has an obligation to maximize the opportunities to produce such beneficial consequences, even at the cost of inflicting some pain on animals.
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he value we place on their lives does not count as much as the value we place on human lives.
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The debate over painful experimentation on animals enjoins us to consider the wrongfulness of inflicting pain and the duty to respect the lives of all creatures, while also considering our obligations to promote human welfare and prevent human suffering, animals aside.
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21 Mar 13
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he researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way.
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the lives of all creatures, great and small, have value and are worthy of respect.
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An insane person has a right to be treated with respect, yet he or she may not be able to act rationally. Nor does a right to be treated with respect rest on being a member of a
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certain species.
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit.
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In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live. And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives. It is only out of sheer habit or ease that scientists continue to inflict pain on animals when, in fact, alternatives exist. And, where alternatives don't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them.
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$3.5 million in damage.
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head trauma, a condition which now claims more that 50,000 lives a year
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They took videotapes recording the deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons. Copies of the videotape were sent to the media, to University officials, and to government agencies which eventually suspended federal funds for the experiments.
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products.
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Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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15 Mar 13
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07 Mar 13
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Others argue that moral rights and principles of justice apply only to human beings
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06 Mar 13
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Furthermore, many argue, while the lives of animals may be deserving of some respect, the value we place on their lives does not count as much as the value we place on human lives. Human beings are creatures that have capacities and sensibilities that are much more highly developed than that of animals. Because humans are more highly developed, their welfare always counts for more than that of animals.
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05 Mar 13
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They took videotapes recording the deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons.
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers
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Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit.
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit.
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In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live.
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers
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27 Feb 13
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually,three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test variousproducts. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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31 Jan 13
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16 Jan 13
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08 Jan 13
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17 Dec 12
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deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons
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suspended federal funds for the experiment
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20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products
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argue that painful experimentation on animals should be halted, or at least curtailed, maintain that pain is an intrinsic evil, and any action that causes pain to another creature is simply not morally permissible
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animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain
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If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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An insane person has a right to be treated with respect, yet he or she may not be able to act rationally
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"Speciesism" is as arbitrarily unjust as racism or sexism
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The right to be treated with respect rests, rather, on a creature's being a "subject of a life," with certain experiences, preferences, and interests
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit
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And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives
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society has an obligation to act in ways that will minimize harm and maximize benefits. Halting or curtailing painful experimentation on animals would have harmful consequences to society
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scientists do work to minimize pain when possible
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. Animal research has been the basis for new vaccines, new cancer therapies, artificial limbs and organs, new surgical techniques, and the development of hundreds of useful products and materials
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These benefits to humans far outweigh the costs in suffering that relatively few animals have had to endure
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Where do our moral obligations lie?
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Mice or men
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16 Dec 12
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Credit for the fire was claimed by the Animal Liberation Front, a clandestine international group committed to halting experimentation on animals.
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invaded
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deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons
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20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products.
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10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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heavy restrictions
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Whether such experiments should be allowed to continue has become a matter for public debate.
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intrinsic
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curtailed
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morally permissible
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utilitarian
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welfare
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"Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer ?"
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animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain.
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forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way
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intrinsic
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If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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lives of all creatures, great and small, have value and are worthy of respect
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An insane person has a right to be treated with respect
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injustice similar to racism or sexism
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"Speciesism"
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arbitrarily
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rests
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"subject of a life,"
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halting painful animal experiments would put an end to scientific progress, with harmful consequences to society
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performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit.
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starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit.
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baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps.
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merit
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where alternatives don't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them.
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an obligation to act in ways that will minimize harm and maximize benefits.
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curtailing
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sensationalistic
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promises to vastly improve the quality and duration of human lives.
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Animal research has been the basis for new vaccines, new cancer therapies, artificial limbs and organs, new surgical techniques, and the development of hundreds of useful products and materials.
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benefits to humans far outweigh the costs in suffering that relatively few animals have had to endure.
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even at the cost of inflicting some pain on animals.
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value we place on their lives does not count as much as the value we place on human lives.
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Moreover, if we move to consider animals as our moral equals, where do we draw the line?
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moral rights and principles of justice apply only to human beings.
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Morality is a creation of social processes in which animals do not participate.
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Since animals are not part of this moral community, we have no obligations toward them.
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Where do our moral obligations lie?
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consider the wrongfulness of inflicting pain and the duty to respect the lives of all creatures, while also considering our obligations to promote human welfare and prevent human suffering, animals aside.
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30 Nov 12
Natalie PThis website explains that only 3/4 of animal testing is use for medical proposes and the rest is to test cosmic products.
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12 Nov 12
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27 Oct 12
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scientific progress
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pain is an intrinsic evil, and any action that causes pain to another creature is simply not morally permissible.
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animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain.
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17 Oct 12
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Three years earlier, members of the group invaded the Experimental Head Injury Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where scientists had been engaged in research on head trauma, a condition which now claims more that 50,000 lives a year. They took videotapes recording the deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons.
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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Pointing to the words of the nineteenth-century utilitarian, Jeremy Bentham, animal welfare advocates claim that the morally relevant question about animals is not "Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer ?" And, animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain. The researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way. Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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Finally, animal welfare activists defend their position by countering the claim that halting painful animal experiments would put an end to scientific progress, with harmful consequences to society. Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit. In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live
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And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives. It is only out of sheer habit or ease that scientists continue to inflict pain on animals when, in fact, alternatives exist. And, where alternatives don't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them
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03 Oct 12
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24 Apr 12
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University of Pennsylvania
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research on head trauma, a condition which now claims more that 50,000 lives a year
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inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons
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three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products
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20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually
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eight million are used in painful experiments
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10 percent
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animal welfare advocates claim that the morally relevant question about animals is not
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"Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer ?"
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If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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"Speciesism" is as arbitrarily unjust as racism or sexism.
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Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit
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while the lives of animals may be deserving of some respect
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If we had to choose between saving a drowning baby and saving a drowning rat, we would surely save the baby
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While we may have a duty to not cause animals needless suffering, when we are faced with a choice between the welfare of humans and the welfare of animals, it is with humans that our moral obligation lies.
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10 Apr 12
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But this growing criticism of painful experimentation on animals is matched by a growing concern over the threat restrictions on the use of animals would pose to scientific progress.
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An insane person has a right to be treated with respect, yet he or she may not be able to act rationally. Nor does a right to be treated with respect rest on being a member of a certain species. Restricting respect for life to a certain species is to
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perform an injustice similar to racism or sexism. Like the racist who holds that respect for other races does not count as much as respect for his or her own race, those who support painful experimentation on animals assume that respect for other species does not count as much as respect for members of his or her own species.
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animal welfare activists defend their position by countering the claim that halting painful animal experiments would put an end to scientific progress, with harmful consequences to society.
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Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit.
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit.
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21 Mar 12
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By Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez
In the spring of 1987, a veterinary lab at the University of California at Davis was destroyed by a fire thatcaused $3.5 million in damage . Credit for the fire was claimed by theAnimal Liberation Front, a clandestine international group committed to halting experimentation on animals. Three years earlier, members of the group invaded the Experimental Head Injury Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where scientists had been engaged in research on head trauma, a condition which now claims more that 50,000 lives a year. They took videotapes recording the deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons. Copies of the videotape were sent to the media, to University officials, and to government agencies which eventually suspended federal funds for the experiments -
In the spring of 1987, a veterinary lab at the University of California at Davis was destroyed by a fire that
caused $3.5 million in damage . Credit for the fire was claimed by the Animal Liberation Front, a clandestine international group committed to halting experimentation on animals. Three years earlier, members of the group invaded the Experimental Head Injury Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania where scientists had been engaged in research on head trauma, a condition which now claims more that 50,000 lives a year. They took videotapes recording the deliberate and methodical inflicting of severe head injuries on unanesthetized chained baboons. Copies of the videotape were sent to the media, to University officials, and to government agencies which eventually suspended federal funds for the experiments. -
caused $3.5 million in damage
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Animal Liberation Front, a clandestine international group committed to halting experimentation on animals. Three years earlier, members of the group invaded
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments.
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13 Dec 11
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13 Jun 11
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15 Apr 11
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The researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way. Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit. Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit. In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live. And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives. It is only out of sheer habit or ease that scientists continue to inflict pain on animals when, in fact, alternatives exist.
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14 Mar 11
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Those who argue that painful experimentation on animals should be halted, or at least curtailed, maintain that pain is an intrinsic evil, and any action that causes pain to another creature is simply not morally permissible.
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Pointing to the words of the nineteenth-century utilitarian, Jeremy Bentham, animal welfare advocates claim that the morally relevant question about animals is not "Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer ?"
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Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
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Finally, animal welfare activists defend their position by countering the claim that halting painful animal experiments would put an end to scientific progress, with harmful consequences to society. Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit. Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit. In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live. And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives. It is only out of sheer habit or ease that scientists continue to inflict pain on animals when, in fact, alternatives exist. And, where alternatives don't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them.
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28 Feb 11
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products.
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An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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30 Jan 11
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Animal Liberation Front, a clandestine international group committed to halting experimentation on animals.
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About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products
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threat restrictions on the use of animals would pose to scientific progress.
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painful experimentation on animals should be halted, or at least curtailed, maintain that pain is an intrinsic evil,
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not morally permissible.
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Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal.
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it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
-
Restricting respect for life to a certain species is to perform an injustice similar to racism or sexism
-
Justice demands that the interests of animals be respected, which includes respect for their interest to be spared undeserved pain.
-
halting painful animal experiments would put an end to scientific progress
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moral task of science is to discover them.
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Halting or curtailing painful experimentation on animals would have harmful consequences to society.
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Animal research has been the basis for new vaccines, new cancer therapies, artificial limbs and organs, new surgical techniques, and the development of hundreds of useful products and materials.
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the value we place on their lives does not count as much as the value we place on human lives.
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when we are faced with a choice between the welfare of humans and the welfare of animals, it is with humans that our moral obligation lies.
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Moral rights and moral principles apply only to those who are part of the moral community created by these social processes.
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duty to respect the lives of all creatures,
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27 Jan 11
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24 Jan 11
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Manon Duchekanimal stastics
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Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers.
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And, animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain. The researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way.
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Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit. In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live. And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives
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Others argue that moral rights and principles of justice apply only to human beings. Morality is a creation of social processes in which animals do not participate
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11 Jan 11
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03 Jan 08
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