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.
Critter News
OCTOBER 26, 2008
I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Sounds interesting. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own?
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Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry.
Animal Person
APRIL 26, 2009
But the ease with which we can tell our stories and post our videos must not render us incapable of moral judgment and decency. However, it's tough not to cock your head when you read: The internet has given free speech a whole new impetus. And finally, who is to decide when a video is entertaining versus informative?
Animal Ethics
MAY 25, 2008
One restriction on the absolutism of man's rule over Nature is now generally accepted: moral philosophers and public opinion agree that it is morally impermissible to be cruel to animals. Controversies no doubt remain.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. But that's now what happened. Or mute babies?
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
The predicament in such a non-moral case will concern only the individual and a few associates. When the ultimate values concerned are moral ones, on the other hand, and more particularly altruistic ones, the case is different; for the individual in such a dilemma has all society on his conscience. It need not.
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