Peter Singer-Animal Liberation

All this training,involving thousandsof electricshocks, is onlypreliminaryto therealexperiment.Once themonkeys are regularly kee ...

of their inability to keep theplatform level. Although the reportismostlyconcernedwiththeeffectofthenervepoison ontheperformance ...

And then, one day, the blinkers slipped off, and I found myselfinaveryseriousconfrontationwithDr.RoyDeHart, Commander,U.S.AirFor ...

Aspinbeganavigorousprotest,supportedbyantivivisection societies. Advertisementswere placed inmajor newspapers across thecountry. ...

Frederick,Maryland,researchersfed 60 beagle dogsvaried dosesoftheexplosiveTNT.ThedogsweregiventheTNTin capsules every day for si ...

irradiation on their performance. They have also trained monkeys torunin an “activitywheel,”which isa kind of cylindrical treadm ...

Weshouldnot, ofcourse, judgeallanimalexperimentation bytheexperimentsIhavejustdescribed.Thearmedservices, one might think, are h ...

sufficientlysevereandenduringearlyisolationreducesthese animals to a social-emotional level in which the primary social responsi ...

In the same article in which they tell of Bowlby’s visit, Harlowand Suomi describehow theyhadthe “fascinating idea”ofinducingdep ...

Eventually, Harlow and Suomi gave up on the artificial monstermothersbecausetheyfoundsomethingbetter:areal monkey mother who was ...

exploringtheirsurroundingsasnormalmonkeysdo.Butthe report ends inconclusively and ominously: Whether[theresults]canbe tracedspec ...

AfterleavingWisconsin,GeneSackettcontinueddeprivation studies at the University of Washington Primate Center. Sackett has raised ...

conductedintheUnitedStates.Theseexperimentssubjected over seven thousand animals to procedures that induced distress, despair, a ...

performedonanimalsin1988.^19 IntheUnitedStatesthere are nofigures of comparable accuracy.Under the Animal Welfare Act, the U.S. ...

animalsusedinexperimentseachyear.^22 (Thisfigureomits animals who die in shipping or are killed before the experimentbegins.)Ast ...

Laboratoriesproduces.InjournalslikeLabAnimal,animals areadvertisedasiftheywerecars.Beneathaphotographof twoguineapigs,onenormala ...

“Newon theMarket,” whichrecently informedits readers about a new piece of research equipment: ThelatestanimalresearchtoolfromCol ...

that wiggles is the nose!” Sometimes, however, a little sensitivitytothecontroversialnatureofthesubjectisshown: thedescription o ...

ratstochoosebetweenstarvationandelectricshocktoseeif theydevelopulcers(whichtheydo)doessobecausetherat hasanervoussystemvery sim ...

aboutthem.ThatiswhyIhavenotattemptedtotonedownor glossoversomeofthethingsthataredonetoanimals.Atthe sametimeIhavenottriedtomaket ...