11. Animal Rights, Endangered Species and Human Survival, by Lewis Regenstein
to rationalize their own cruelty. But
while cruelty to animals may be easy for some to accept, it is far
more difficult for policy makers to defend such actions when they
clearly have adverse
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12. Experiments on Animals, by Richard Ryder
performed under the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 during
1969." It was recorded that 5,418,929 experiments were performed
in that year. Of these, 4,743,609 were carried out without
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13. The Unpardonable Crime, by Romain Rolland
been able to bear cruelty towards them: he had always had a
detestation of sport, which he had never dared to express for fear
of ridicule: but his feeling of repulsion had been the secret
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14. The Rights of Animals and Future Generations, by Joel Feinberg
their due. Statutes making cruelty to animals
a crime are now very common, and these, of course, impose legal
duties on people not to mistreat animals; but that still leaves
open the question whether
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15. The World is a Mighty Slaughterhouse, by William A. Alcott
involves so much
of cruelty as to cause every reflecting individual—not destitute of the ordinary
sensibilities of our nature—to shudder. I recall: daily observation shows that
such is not the fact; nor should it, upon second
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16. Animal Liberation at 30, by Peter Singer
countries, for tolerating cruelty to
animals. Now the accusing glance goes in the opposite direction.
Even in Spain, with its culture of bull-fighting, most animals are
better cared for than in
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17. The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity, by Bernard Mandeville
of man, there can be no cruelty
in putting creatures to the use they were designed for; but I have
heard men make this reply, while their nature within them has
reproached them with the falsehood of
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18. Why Darwinians Should Support Equal Treatment for Other Great Apes, by James...
others were cruelty to animals and slavery. His detestation of
both was intense, and his indignation was overpowering in case of
any levity or want of feeling on these matters.'[2]
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19. Spirits Dressed in Furs?, by Adriaan Kortlandt
be liable to conviction for cruelty
because suffering could not be proven scientifically, in humans
and in animals.
There were
other trends. In 1760 a
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20. A Critique of Kant, by Arthur Schopenhauer
it says in §17 that "cruelty to
animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it
deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and
thus a natural tendency that is very
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