Animal Rights
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What rights should non-human animals have? Which animals deserve which rights? What sorts of animal testing (on which animals) are justifiable and for what purposes? How should we decide such questions?
This Twine is for topics related to animal rights and animal welfare, with emphasis on the underlying justifications for various forms of animal rights and animal welfare.
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This Twine is for topics related to animal rights and animal welfare, with emphasis on the underlying justifications for various forms of animal rights and animal welfare.
Please refrain from flaming or proselytizing.
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Victor's Earth Day VideoHere is a video of my budgie named Victor who had a vocabulary of over 1000 words and understood their meaning as well. He understood everything he said and was able to speak full blown English. If you use headphones, and follow the captions provided you should be able to understand much of ...
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Discovery Channel :: News - Animals :: Animal Intelligence Resists DefinitionPeople generally define intelligence in terms that place our own species at the apex, but recent studies on other animals suggest skills such as abstract thinking, problem solving, reasoning, and language — once thought unique to us — may not be so uncommon after all. "The closer we examine ...
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7 months ago
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Seed: Of Primates and PersonhoodTwo major legal developments in the past few months are deepening a schism between leading primatologists, biologists, and ethicists around the world. A pending Spanish law that would grant unprecedented protections to great apes, and a recent extension to a Swiss law that protects the "dignity" ...
Calvin Smith
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The World's First Surfing Mice - The Radical RodentsVideo: The World's First Surfing Mice - The Radical Rodents
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Overcoming Bias: Animal experimentation: morally acceptable, or just the way things always have been?Following the announcement last week that Oxford University’s controversial Biomedical Sciences building is now complete and will be open for business in mid-2009, the ethical issues surrounding the use of animals for scientific experimentation have been revisited in the media—see,...
Calvin Smith
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Victor's Earth Day VideoVictor talked about animal rights often in his videos. He had a vocabulary of over 1000 words and understood their meanings as well. This video is just one of many that I have of him talking in context.Ryan Reynolds added 5 months ago
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