1. Animal Rights, Endangered Species and Human Survival, by Lewis Regenstein
in the 1600s
whalers took about a hundred years to decimate the whale
population of the Arctic, and the Greenland right whale was
reduced to the verge of extinction. In the late 1700s whalers
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2. Animal Rights in the Political Arena, by Clive Hollands
death of the last whale will be man's loss, not the whales'.
Neither is animal welfare
being an animal lover. Britain is called the 'animal-loving'
country of
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3. The Carnivorous Custom and Human Vanity, by Bernard Mandeville
animals, the tiger, nay, the whale
and the eagle, would have obeyed his voice.
But if your wit and
understanding exceeds ours, ought not the lion in deference to
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4. Defending Animals by Appeal to Rights, by Donald VanDeVeer
the requisite labor, did the whale own Jonah? Perhaps Rachels
is not wrong on this matter, but the argument is too sketchy to
bear the weight he hopes to rest on it.
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5. The Post-Darwinian Transition, by David Pearce
about the pain-centers of a whale or an
elephant, for instance, to establish whether approximate equality
of biological propensity to anguish is really the case. Greater
encephalisation of emotion most
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6. Apes and the Idea of Kindred, by Stephen R. L. Clark
shark, mackerel, plesiosaur, whale, dugong, seal. Life-in-Society
has found its images among the ants, termites, bees and mammals.
Maybe we can bring the Form more clearly into temporal existence,
but we
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7. All Beings that Feel Pain Deserve Human Rights, by Richard Ryder
and in the wild. A whale may take 20 minutes to die after being harpooned. A lynx may suffer for a week with her broken leg held in a steel-toothed trap. A battery hen lives all her life unable to even stretch her wings. An animal in a
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