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Diet and Diet Reform, by Mohandas Gandhi

WEBAssorted writings on animal liberation. [B]ut for the unfortunate characteristic of this "self-indulgent" age, in which "nothing is more common than to hear men warmly supporting a …

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The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals

WEBThe Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals* MARIAN STAMP DAWKINS 'As far as our feelings are concerned, we are locked within our own skins.' I have always found

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A Shameful Human Infirmity, by Alphonse de Lamartine

WEBA Shameful Human Infirmity. Excerpted from Les confidences. New York: Appleton & Co., 1865, pp. 59-61 [note 8] My mother troubled herself but little about what is called …

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An Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism

WEBAn Ecological Argument for Vegetarianism* PETER S. WENZ I To the prudential, humanitarian, utilitarian, and deontological arguments for vegetarianism, I would like to …

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They Are Us, by Geza Teleki

WEBNew York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1993, pp. 296-302. Acrobat version. Two and a half decades ago, when I was a novice undergraduate at George Washington University, the study of …

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A Basis for (Interspecies) Equality, by Ingmar Persson

WEBThe Equal Consideration of Interests. In his treatment of the topic in Practical Ethics, Peter Singer argues that, because of the differences alluded to, a principle of human equality …

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Images of Death and Life: Food Animal Production and the …

WEByear. Indeed, in The Hungry Planet Georg Borgstrom has calculated that the global population of domestic food animals equals our own human population. When the …

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The Scientific Basis for Assessing Suffering in Animals, by Marian

WEBThere are three main sources of such evidence: its physical health, its physiological signs and its behaviour. The first and most obvious symptom of suffering is an animal's state …

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The Rights of Animals and Future Generations

WEBAnimals cannot have rights, he thought, for the same reason they cannot have duties, namely, that they are not genuine "moral agents." Now, it is relatively easy to see why …

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The Emerging Ethic for Animals

WEBThe Ascent of Apes — Broadening the Moral Community* BERNARD E. ROLLIN The Emerging Ethic for Animals Twenty-five years ago, it would have been culturally …

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Defending Animals by Appeal to Rights, by Donald VanDeVeer

WEBThis general assumption has been employed by Leonard Nelson in A System of Ethics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956) and by Joel Feinberg in "The Rights of …

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Language and the Orang-utan: The Old 'Person' of the Forest, by …

WEBH. L. Miles, 'Acquisition of gestural signs by an infant orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)\ American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 52 (1980) pp. 256—7; H. L. Miles, 'Apes …

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Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty

WEB[13] Stanley Wechkin, Jules H. Masserman, and William Terris, Jr., "Shock to a Conspecific as an Aversive Stimulus," Psychonomic Science, vol. 1 (1964), pp. 47—48; " 'Altruistic' …

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A Matter of Change, by Donald J. Barnes

WEBThe answer has changed as my values have changed, but consistently and in the same direction. Let's take a chronological look at the evolution of my values in order to try to …

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Defending Animals by Appeal to Rights

WEBoften occurs needlessly. We still need an argument to show what Rachels asserts: that creatures with interests thereby have correlative prima facie rights of a sort.2 There is an …

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Profoundly Intellectually Disabled Humans and the Great Apes: A

WEBAgainst the background of a profound mental disability, different aspects of communication were treated separately: visual and tactile, vibratory, smell and taste. Froehlich further …

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Abstinence and the Philosophical Life

WEBAssorted writings on animal liberation. Inasmuch as I have begun to explain to you how much greater was my impulse to approach philosophy in my youth than to continue it in …

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On Abstinence from Animal Food, by Porphyry

WEBWe collect, however, corn and leguminous substances, when, being efflorescent, they have fallen on the earth, and are dead. But no one uses for food the flesh of dead animals, …

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The Silver Spring Monkeys, by Alex Pacheco with Anna Francione

WEBState, 296 Md 439 (1983)). The court's opinion enraged not only the Maryland State's Attorneys Office but also the many scientists and supporters who saw Taub slip through …

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Against Zoos, by Dale Jamieson

WEBThe emperor Trajan staged 123 consecutive days of games in order to celebrate his conquest of Dacia. Eleven thousand animals were slaughtered, including lions, tigers, …

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Life of Pythagoras, by Diogenes Laertius

WEBLife of Pythagoras. He is said to have been the first man who trained athletes on meat. Eurymenes was the first man, according to the statement of Favorinus, in the third book …

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Legal Rights for Great Apes

WEBSome may argue that the concept of legal personhood cannot, as a conceptual matter, be extended to anything but human persons. Indeed, it is the common lay view that humans …

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