Peter Singer-Animal Liberation

toputitintopracticewhenjudgingapplicationstoperform animal experiments, because they would be unable to persuadeothermembersofth ...

theprospectoffindingacureformajordiseasesthatstillkill us and our children. In the United States, where experimenterscandovirtua ...

of them,using ingredients already knownto be safe. That does not seemto be any great loss. But fortesting really essential produ ...

StatesNationalCancerInstituteshowthattheoverallrateof cancer, even when adjusted for the increasing age of the population, hasbe ...

warnedthatanimaltestsmayfailtopickupchemicalsthat causecancerinpeople.Exposuretoarsenicseemstoincrease theriskthatapersonwilldev ...

Thedefendersofanimalexperimentationarefondoftelling usthatanimalexperimentationhasgreatlyincreasedourlife expectancy. Inthe mids ...

J.B.andS.M.McKinleyreachedasimilarconclusionina studyofthedeclineoftenmajorinfectiousdiseasesin the United States.Theyshowedthat ...

poliomyelitisasavirusandthedevelopmentofavaccinefor it;severaldiscoveriesthatservedtomakeopenheartsurgery and coronaryartery byp ...

withouttheirconsent,althoughtherearemanycasesinwhich suchexperimentswouldadvanceknowledgefarmorerapidly thananyothermethod.Nowwe ...

Legislators tend to ignore protests about animal experimentation from their constituents, because they are overly influenced by ...

them,andtheequipmentusedtoexperimentonthem.These companiesarepreparedtospendhugeamountsofmoneyto opposelegislationthatwilldepriv ...

seriouslybythepoliticalparties,especiallythoseclosertothe Greenendofthepoliticalspectrum.Inthe 1988 UnitedStates presidentialele ...

Chapter 3 Down on the Factory Farm ... or what happened to your dinner when it was still an animal Formosthumanbeings,especially ...

iteasiertofacethetruenatureofalegoflamb.Theterm “meat”isitselfdeceptive.Itoriginallymeantanysolidfood, notnecessarilythefleshofa ...

These comfortable assumptions bear little relation to the realitiesofmodernfarming.Forastart,farmingisnolonger controlledbysimpl ...

birthtoslaughter.Onceagain,however,mypointisnotthat thepeoplewhodothesethingstotheanimalsarecrueland wicked.Onthecontrary,theatt ...

conditionssimplybecausethisisinitselfabadthingisnot mentioned.RuthHarrison,theauthorofAnimalMachines,a pioneering exposéof inten ...

flocks.TodayintheUnitedStates, 102 millionbroilers—as table chickens arecalled—are slaughtered each week after being reared in h ...

of spaceper chicken—or less thanthe area of a sheet of standardtypingpaper. (Inmetricterms,this is 450 square centimetersforahen ...

individualbirdaredecisiveinthemaintenanceofthepecking order.^4 Otherstudieshaveshownthataflockofuptoninetychickens can maintain ...