Peter Singer-Animal Liberation

Intheory,wecouldalwaysbemistakenwhenweassumethat otherhumanbeingsfeelpain.Itisconceivablethatoneofour closefriendsisreallyacleve ...

cortexthanotheranimals,thispartofthebrainisconcerned with thinking functions rather than with basic impulses, emotions, and feel ...

behaviorofbothhumanandnonhumananimals,areactually farmorecomplexthanrivalexplanations.Forweknowfrom ourown experiencethatexplana ...

identical to ours and their reactions to pain remarkably similar, though lacking (so far as we know) the philosophical and moral ...

Thatmightwellbethoughtenoughtosettlethematter;but onemoreobjectionneedstobeconsidered.Humanbeingsin pain, after all, have one be ...

reason to believe thatthey aresuffering. Still, this line of argumentfailstoo.As JaneGoodallhaspointedoutinher studyofchimpanzee ...

Animalscanfeelpain.Aswesawearlier,therecanbe no moraljustification forregarding thepain(orpleasure) that animalsfeelaslessimport ...

The same experiments performed on nonhuman animals wouldcauselesssufferingsincetheanimalswouldnothave the anticipatory dread of ...

explainthatwearenotthreateningtheirlives.Awildanimal cannotdistinguishanattempttooverpowerandconfinefrom an attempt to kill; the ...

Thewrongnessofkillingabeingismorecomplicated.Ihave kept,andshallcontinuetokeep,thequestionofkillinginthe backgroundbecause in th ...

severethattheinfantcanneverbeanymorethana“human vegetable,” unable to talk, recognize other people, act independentlyofothers,or ...

Thisdoesnot meanthattoavoidspeciesismwemusthold thatitisaswrongtokilladogasitistokillahumanbeingin fullpossessionofhisorherfacul ...

than those of other beings;but there willsurely be some nonhumananimals whoselives,byanystandards,aremore valuablethanthelivesof ...

oncewerealizethatthefactthatabeingisamemberofour ownspeciesisnotinitselfenoughtomakeitalwayswrongto kill that being, we maycome ...

beingwhohasbeenhoping,planning,andworkingforsome futuregoalistodeprivethatbeingofthefulfillment ofall thoseefforts;totakethelife ...

strictlyunnecessary.Interestinglyenough,thisistrueevenof the conclusion that we ought to become vegetarians, a conclusion that i ...

we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe. Ishallhavenothing,orvirtuallynothing,tosayaboutthe ...

Chapter 2 Tools for Research ... your taxes at work Project X, a popular film released in 1987, gave many Americanstheirfirstgli ...

controlstick,bymeansofwhichtheplatformcanbereturned toahorizontalposition.Oncemonkeyshavebeentrainedto do this, they are subject ...

PhasesIV–VI (pushstickforward and pullstickback): In thesephases thePEP istipped backand themonkeys are shockeduntiltheypushthes ...