1. The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals, by Marian Stamp Dawkins
Behaviour
A third, and very
important, source of information about suffering in animals is
their Behaviour. Behaviour has the great
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2. Experiments on Animals, by Richard Ryder
homosexual
behaviour with other rats "by keeping them on an electric grid and
shocking them through the feet." (P. L. Broadhurst, The Science
of
Animal
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3. Humans, Nonhumans and Personhood, by Robert W. Mitchell
that some
animals can satisfy criteria for verbal communication, we can now
look for evidence of self-consciousness in these animals, with its
attendant sense of moral responsibility.
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4. Brave New Farm?, by Jim Mason
for direct
animal engineering: if the factory cannot be modified to suit the
animal, the animal is modified to suit the factory. To ensure that
stressed pigs cannot tail-bite, farmers routinely cut
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5. Who's Like Us?, by Heta Häyry & Matti Häyry
beings use
animals to satisfy their needs. Second, others argue that the
creation of law and society sets human beings apart from other
animals. It would be absurd to burden chimpanzees, gorillas and
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6. Ill-gotten Gains, by Tom Regan
being equal, to cause an animal to suffer
is to harm that animal — is, that is, to diminish that individual
animal's welfare. But these two notions - harming on the one hand
and suffering on the
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7. The Silver Spring Monkeys, by Alex Pacheco with Anna Francione
major victories for animals in her eleven years as an
animal law-enforcement officer. By the spring of that year we had
formed People for the Ethical Treatment of animals (PETA), both
believing
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8. The Chimp Farm, by Betsy Swart
and the bored and stressed animals accept the
food gladly. There are a few signs posted on the premises to limit
tourists' aggressive behaviour, but neither the Noells nor their
staff keep a watchful
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9. A Report to the Academy, by John Gray
difference between using animals for scientific research and using humans: humans have the capacity for consent, whereas animals do not. It is true that adult humans can express their wishes to other humans in ways that even our closest animal
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10. Great Apes and the Human Resistance to Equality, by Dale Jamieson
exploited by promoters of animal research whose public relations
campaigns often feature children who claim to be alive and happy
because of experimentation on animals. These individuals who have
been
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