Thoughts on Animal Rights by Tom Regan

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January 15, 2013

 

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Toxicity tests of cosmetics on animals violates their rights, but important medical research -- cancer research, for example -- does not. The clubbing of baby seals is abhorrent, but not the harvesting of adult seals. I used to think I understood this reasoning. Not any more. You don't change unjust institutions by tidying them up...
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I used to think I understood this reasoning. Not any more. You don't change unjust institutions by tidying them up. What's wrong -- fundamentally wrong -- with the way animals are treated isn't the details that vary from case to case. It's the whole system. The forlornness of the veal calf is pathetic, heart wrenching; the pulsing pain of the chimp with electrodes planted deep in her brain is repulsive; the slow, torturous death of a raccoon caught in the leg-hold trap is agonizing...
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