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An Essay on Humanity to Animals is a 1798 book by English theologian Thomas Young.It advocates for the ethical treatment and welfare of animals.It argues for recognizing animals' natural rights and condemns the various forms of cruelty inflicted upon them in human activities.
An animal lover since his childhood, he became an activist against animal testing, while living in Rome. [1] Ruesch did not believe that medical research could benefit by using such methods. Instead, Ruesch insisted that medicine was led dangerously astray by what he saw as pseudo-science , and a fatally false methodology.
Doctors Against Animal Experiments (DAAE; Ärzte gegen Tierversuche) is an animal rights organization based in Cologne, which campaigns for the complete abolition of animal testing under the motto "Medical progress is important - animal testing is the wrong way".
His arguments for abstaining from eating animals are informed by the goal of being free from the sensible realm and the body [10] by living a life as close as possible to the intelligible realm. [8] By Porphyry's logic, the consumption of animals is an unnecessary luxury and a gratification of the body and therefore, of the irrational aspect of ...
[14] [15] They stated that whilst writing the vegetarian arguments for his book, Ritson had used a quill plucked from a goose, ink made from insects and a whale-tallow candle. [ 16 ] A reviewer in The Monthly Review in 1803 also noted inconsistences with Ritson's vegetarian arguments, such as his consumption of milk.
Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals. Oxford University Press, 1980; Papers "Medicine, Animal Experimentation, and the Moral Problem of Unfortunate Humans," Social Philosophy and Policy 13 (1996): 118-211 "What has sentiency to do with the possession of rights?" in David A. Paterson and Richard D. Ryder (eds.), Animals' Rights: A ...
It promotes the use of alternative methods for animal testing, but does not oblige the test performer to do so; "Article 25.1 - In order to avoid animal testing, testing on vertebrate animals for the purposes of this Regulation shall be undertaken only as a last resort. It is also necessary to take measures limiting duplication of other tests."
Philosophers and animal rights advocates state that speciesism plays a role in the animal–industrial complex, [13] [14] including in the practice of factory farming, animal slaughter, blood sports (such as bullfighting, cockfighting and rodeos), the taking of animals' fur and skin, and experimentation on animals, [15] [16] [17] as well as the ...