Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection
Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection
This chapter outlines the basic argument linking animal rights with human rights and then critically responds to some of the more frequently encountered objections to animal rights. It discusses the overestimation of human benefits, the underestimation of human harms and comparisons across species. It suggests the claim that human benefits derived from vivisection greatly exceed the harms done to animals is more in the nature of unsupported ideology than demonstrated fact. It also argues that animal rights indicate that humans and other animals are equal in morally relevant respects. This chapter shows that the implications of animal rights for vivisection are both clear and uncompromising.
Keywords: animal rights, human rights, human harms, human benefits, vivisection
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