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Tag Archives: animal rights
Review: John Gluck’s Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals
The entire medical research enterprise is built on a foundation of intense and immense animal suffering. Most of the effective treatments we have now were previously tested on non-human animals before they were ever used on humans. On the other … Continue reading
Posted in ethics, Philosophy
Tagged animal rights, bioethics, Harry Harlow, John Gluck, Peter Singer, research ethics
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Montaigne: We’re all animals
I have a bad habit of speculating about what animals, usually my dog or someone else’s pet, are thinking. This leads people close to me to accuse me of anthropomorphism. They say I assume animals experience the world in the … Continue reading
Posted in ethics, justice, Philosophy
Tagged animal rights, anthropodenial, anthropomorphism, cannibalism, Montaigne, Nussbaum, torture, Wealth Inequality
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The ethics of eating talking plants
In a blog post on The Atlantic Wire, Sara Morrison writes, “Just when moral vegetarians thought their meal of choice wasn’t sentient, it turns out that plants can totally talk to each other. Even weirder, they communicate through underground fungi. … Continue reading
Posted in bioethics, ethics
Tagged animal rights, Bentham, Dennett, Descartes, pain, sentience, suffering, vegetarian
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