1. Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals, by Charles Darwin
general concepts. But when a dog sees another dog at a
distance, it is often clear that he perceives that it is a dog in
the abstract; for when he gets nearer his whole manner suddenly
changes, if the
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2. The Case for Animal Rights, by Tom Regan
your neighbour kicks your dog. Then your
neighbour has done something wrong. But not to your dog. The wrong
that has been done is a wrong to you. After all, it is wrong to
upset people, and your
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3. All Animals Are Equal, by Peter Singer
a hungry baby or a hungry dog, anyone
who chose the dog would generally be reckoned morally defective,
unable to recognize a fundamental inequality of claims.
This is what distinguishes our attitude
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4. Spirits Dressed in Furs?, by Adriaan Kortlandt
is said to have written that dogs would be admitted to
Heaven. (He had a dog, of course, and would not have liked to
leave him behind.) In 1649 Descartes made the next step and
declared animals to be
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5. Vivisection in America, by Albert Leffingwell
stomach from a living dog—the "infamous experiment of Magendie,"
as Dr. Sharpey calls it ? I have seen it done, not in Europe, but
America. To cut down upon the spinal cord of a dog for the
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6. The Rights of Animals and Future Generations, by Joel Feinberg
is not the mistreated dog who is the ultimate object of
concern, . . ." he writes. "Our concern is for the feelings of
other human beings, a large proportion of whom, although
accustomed
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7. Experiments on Animals, by Richard Ryder
100,000 cats and 250,000 dogs. (If, therefore, the ratio
of dogs used to the total number of experiments is similar in the
USA to that in the UK, then the American total for all animals
used annually
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8. A Critique of Kant, by Arthur Schopenhauer
case of primates, such as dogs, monkeys, and the like; it
is unmistakably a priestly trick for the purpose of reducing
animals to the level of things. The ancient Egyptians, whose whole
life was
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9. 'They Clearly Now See the Link': Militant Voices, by Philip Windeatt
wardens,
not dog catchers, and we are looking at establishing our own dog
kennels and a clinic where animals can be spayed and neutered
cheaply. We have also turned down applications for two further pet
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10. Ethics and the New Animal Liberation Movement, by Peter Singer
horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a
more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even
a month, old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it
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