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Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Alternatives to AnimalTesting, in collaboration with a number of government agencies, has established AltWeb, the Alternatives to AnimalTesting Web site.
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.
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.
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.
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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I suspect that the moral judgments most of us make about animals do pass these phenomenological tests, so that most of us do believe that animals have rights, but are reluctant to say so because of the conceptual confusions about the notion of a right that I have attempted to dispel above.
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(e) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that were tested on animals when equally effective cruelty-free products are available. (f) f) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that contain animal ingredients. (g) h) Don’t attend circuses that contain nonhuman animal acts. (i)
(e) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that were tested on animals when equally effective cruelty-free products are available. (f) f) Don’t purchase cosmetics or personal care products that contain animal ingredients. (g) h) Don’t attend circuses that contain nonhuman animal acts. (i)
He stated that the department could demand mandatory testing, but that it had to consider what effect that would have on companies as well as consumers. Kenneth Petersen, an assistant administrator with the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, dreadful, appalling and alarming.
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