1. The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals, by Marian Stamp Dawkins
symptom of suffering is an animal's state of physical health. If
an animal is injured or diseased, then there are very strong
grounds for suspecting that it is suffering. All guidebooks and
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2. Ethics and the New Animal Liberation Movement, by Peter Singer
be a form
of suffering additional to whatever pain was involved in the
experiments themselves. The same experiments carried out on
non-human animals would cause less suffering overall, for the
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3. All Animals Are Equal, by Peter Singer
points to the capacity for suffering as the vital
characteristic that gives a being the right to equal
consideration. The capacity for suffering—or more strictly, for
suffering and/or enjoyment or
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4. The First Step, by Leo Tolstoy
not only herself to inflict suffering on animals, but even
to bear the sight of suffering.
Whereas the poor lady is
weak precisely because she has been taught to live
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5. Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?, by James Rachels
the question as to whether animals have rights. If they do,
... it would seem an illegitimate invasion of animal rights to
kill and eat them, if, as seems to be the case, we can sustain
ourselves
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6. 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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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. Aping Persons — Pro and Con, by Steve F. Sapontzis
of
nonhuman animals we detract from all of these moral goals. Factory
farming, fur trapping and other exploitations of nonhuman animals
increase the suffering and frustration in the world and reduce
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9. Experiments on Animals, by Richard Ryder
Experiments on Animals
by Richard Ryder
In S. & R. GODLOVITCH & J. HARRIS (eds.), Animals, Men and Morals , New York: Taplinger, 1972
Acrobat version
…most experiments are not worth
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10. Ill-gotten Gains, by Tom Regan
or reduce
suffering. Other things 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
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