We’re All Animals: A Feminist Treatment of the Moral Limits of Nonhuman Animal Research
We’re All Animals: A Feminist Treatment of the Moral Limits of Nonhuman Animal Research
This chapter assesses the issue of nonhuman animal research. It offers a provocative and challenging conclusion to the discussion of moral progress and to the volume as a whole. It determines some methodological considerations of an adequate non-ideal account of animal experimentation. It presents a vision of what morally permissible animal experimentation requires, why it is in the interest of researchers as well as their animal subjects to transform the practice accordingly, and how can it bring it about. It also addresses two features of considerable moral importance: dependence and vulnerability. This chapter shows that the status quo of animal experimentation is morally unacceptable.
Keywords: nonhuman animal research, moral progress, animal experimentation, dependence, vulnerability
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