Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to….

The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, a….

There are many cases in which gifted children have done great things without special school programs. There are also gifted kids who have been to spe….

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products we….

Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more tha….

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable..

If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that to the most effective charities you can find….

Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some reason for….

There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by comme….

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother ….

Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant ….

As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig pro….

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our….

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise..

My major concern about leaving enhancement to the marketplace is that then the rich will be able to buy themselves genetically superior children and ….

I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in their altruism, than one tha….

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; ….

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature..

People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want to know about it. Yet those who, by the….

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likel….

I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when ….