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Animal researchers must remember that human beings are special
Source: Reason
Author: Frederick K. Goodwin and Adrian R. Morrison
Country: United States

"Scientists and members of the public who support their work must recognize that they are engaged in a struggle for minds. Their own minds therefore must be clear about what justifies animal research when necessary: that human beings are special." (09/28/00)

The pursuit of happiness
Source: Reason
Author: Ronald Bailey
Country: United States

"[Peter] Singer is perhaps the most thoroughgoing philosophical utilitarian since Jeremy Bentham. As such, he believes animals have rights because the relevant moral consideration is not whether a being can reason or talk but whether it can suffer." (2000)

Animal rights
Source: City Journal
Author: Roger Scruton
Country: United States

"[I]f animals have rights, then they have duties too. Some of them -- foxes, wolves, cats, and killer whales -- would be inveterate murderers and should be permanently locked up. Almost all would be habitual law-breakers." (2000)

I also eat meat -- but ...
Source: Free Life
Author: Paul Anderton
Country: United States

Anderton argues that animals can't be treated on the same level as humans, but that concerns about their treatment may not be lightly dismissed. (1997)

The symbiotic nature of animal research
Source: University of Toledo
Author: Dr. Henry Heffner
Country: United States

Heffner describes animal research as a symbiotic relationship in which both animals and humans benefit. thethe laboratory as a valid ecological niche, and the animal rights movement as an "anti-symbiotic" movement that attempts to deny domestic animals the one right they need to survive: the right to associate with humans. Adobe PDF format.

Fifty things animals can't do
Source: J. Neil Schulman
Author: J. Neil Schulman
Country: United States

"For those of you who can't understand the argument any other way, because these other species don't have the innate ability to engage in any of these activities, all other species of animals known to mankind are inferior to us and don't have rights." (2000)

The illogic of animal rights
Source: J. Neil Schulman
Author: J. Neil Schulman
Country: United States

"If human beings are no different from other animals, then like all other animals it is our nature to kill any other animal which serves the purposes of our survival and well-being, for that is the way of all nature. Therefore, ... human animals can kill members of other animal species for their usefulness to us." (1995)

Hunters: founders and leaders of wildlife conservation
Source: NCPA
Author: H. Sterling Burnett
Country: United States

"[R]egulated sport hunting has not caused or threatened the extinction of a single species. On the contrary, in America and Africa, the money hunters spend and contribute pays the cost of wildlife protection." (11/12/01)

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