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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

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Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web site.

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Tom Regan (1938-2017), R.I.P.

Animal Ethics

As Regan expressed so simply and straightforwardly, what animal rights advocates want is for "people to stop doing terrible things to animals." Each of us can help bring an end to these terrible things by not eating animals, not wearing animals, not purchasing products tested on animals, and not consuming animal products.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Appeal of Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

The test of logic no less than the test of feeling is deliberately challenged by us; for it is only by those who can think as well as feel, and feel as well as think, that the diet-question, or indeed any great social question, can ever be brought to its solution. Henry S.

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R. G. Frey on Applied Philosophy

Animal Ethics

Hare has impressed upon me, simply this: philosophy is concerned with testing arguments for soundness, and the occupation of the philosopher is to carry out this testing. Note 2 from KBJ: Frey says that "philosophy is concerned with testing arguments for soundness." It is, as R. That may not seem like a lot, but it is.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

coli O157:H7 in ground beef samples tested by the Agriculture Department has declined by 80 percent to a fraction of a percent, a level once thought impossible. Today’s meat plants operate in carefully controlled, high-tech environments that approach operating-room levels of sanitation. Since 1999, the incidence of E.

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Bernard E. Rollin on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 6 of 13

Animal Ethics

One suspects that there would be fewer peanut butter lovers if the walls of peanut butter factories were made of glass, for it has been reported by Consumer Reports (May 1972) that rodent hairs and other disgusting materials were found in many of the jars of peanut butter they tested.