1. Vivisection in America, by Albert Leffingwell
such extreme cruelty impossible, but also forbid all painful
experiments for the illustration of well-known facts ? If every
physician who believes that the door to cruelty should be shut,
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2. Persons and Non-Persons, by Mary Midgley
- that it is only because cruelty to animals may lead to
cruelty to humans, or degrade us, or be a sign of a bad moral
character, that we have to avoid it. This means that if we can
show, for
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3. The Forgotten Animal Issue, by Peter Singer
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The purpose of the meeting was to ask McDonald's to investigate the effect of factory farming on the animals whose meat and eggs they used, and then to use these findings to develop less stressful
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4. Ethics and the New Animal Liberation Movement, by Peter Singer
only possible objection to cruelty to animals was that it might
lead to cruelty to humans - according to Aquinas, there was
nothing wrong in itself with making animals suffer. This
became the
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5. 'They Clearly Now See the Link': Militant Voices, by Philip Windeatt
review the outdated 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act and give a 'high
priority' to the development of alternatives to animals, phase out
'extreme livestock systems' and ban live food animals. Animals
kept
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6. The Post-Darwinian Transition, by David Pearce
gratuitous cruelty to members of other species is morally
defensible. Surely it isn't. If pressed, then all but the amoral,
sociopathic or philosophically bewitched are likely to grant that
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7. The Silver Spring Monkeys, by Alex Pacheco with Anna Francione
whether the animal cruelty statute ... is applicable to research
pursuant to a federal program ... we do not believe the
legislature intended [the cruelty statute] to apply to this type
of
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8. On the Eating of Flesh, by Plutarch
come nothing behind them in cruelty. What they kill is their
ordinary nourishment, but what you kill is your better fare."
3. For we
eat not
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9. The Case for Animal Rights, by Tom Regan
Cruelty fares no better.
People or their acts are cruel if they display either a lack of
sympathy for or, worse, the presence of enjoyment in another's
suffering. Cruelty in
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10. Speciesism in the Laboratory, by Richard Ryder
under British law (the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876)
were held by 20,800 people, and of these 11,797 reported
experiments during the year. Of these active licensees, 2,480
worked in commercial
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