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Creature Update

Animal Person

Vetsulin was the perfect new product, except for the fact that it's animal (pig) based, unlike human insulins, and then there was the problem with quality control that was first reported last year. Dogs have died from hypoglycemia due to Vetsulin and there is a class action lawsuit.

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Peter Singer on the Moral Significance of Self-Consciousness

Animal Ethics

Peter Singer , "Killing Humans and Killing Animals," Inquiry 22 [summer 1979]: 145-56, at 152 [endnote omitted]) Note from KBJ: Singer is making a distinction within the class of sentient beings. Suppose pigs are non-self-conscious. Then painlessly killing a pig while replacing it with another, equally happy pig is not wrong.

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