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It is for this reason that animal testing is considered vital for improving human health and it is also why the scientific community a

nd many members of the public support its use. In fact, there are also individuals who are against animal testing

The capacity for suffering is a prerequisite for having interests at all, a condition that must be met before we can speak of rights.

In both the historic and modern views of animal rights, the key point is "sentience," or the capacity to experience pain or pleasur

In the animal rights view, if a being is capable of suffering, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration.

This report estimates that 10,378 million land animals will be killed for food in 2007, including 39 million cows, 121 million pigs, 4 million sheep and goats, 10 million rabbits, 317 million turkeys, 28 million ducks, 9 billion "broilers" chickens and 450 million "layer" hens

mistakes a man has committed in his life may allegedly throw him back, and he may reincarnate as an animal.

If something is going on in this world, it means that some system stands necessarily behind this,

a man has to know his mistakes for himself

But it doesn’t follow that since his ideas on some things were silly, his ideas on all things were silly

reason a central place in human life

Money is clearly only a means to an end, therefore it can’t be the main good

n each case, people craved a painting that featured a large body of blue water, some open grass, a human figure and a few animals.

the survey results reveal our hard-wired preferences, which developed when we were Pleistocene hunter-gatherers roaming the African savannah. The landscapes we find most beautiful are simply those from which we evolved. If we like paintings with a foreground of short grasses, it's because that habitat contains more protein per square mile than any other, which is a crucial perk for a meat-eating primate.

More than 273 million turkeys are raised for food every year in the U.S.; about 79 million of them are slaughtered and eaten for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.(8,9) Before ending up as holiday centerpieces, these gentle birds spend five to six months on factory farms, where thousands of turkeys are packed into dark sheds with no more than 3.5 square feet of space per bird.(10) To keep the extremely crowded birds from scratching and pecking each other to death, workers cut off portions of the birds’ toes and upper beaks with hot blades and desnood the males (the snood is the flap of skin that runs from the beak to the chest).(11) No painkillers are used during these procedures.

Genetic manipulation and antibiotics enable farmers to produce heavily muscled birds who can weigh 35 pounds in as little as five months, and “their internal organs are noticeably crammed together in the little bit of space remaining for the body cavity,

a stress-induced condition that causes young birds to simply stop eating.

By drawing us out of ourselves, wonder does make us feel small and insignificant, but it also gives us right perspective by reconnecting us with something much greater and vaster and higher and better than our daily struggles. Wonder is the ultimate homecoming, returning us to the world that we came from and were in danger of losing.

Socratic wonder is not so much wonder in the sense of awe, but, as hinted by Aristotle, wonder in the sense of puzzlement or perplexity: wonder that arises from contradictions in thought and language, and gives rise to a desire to resolve or at least understand these contradictions.

Socrates himself only turned to philosophy after being puzzled by the Delphic Oracle, which, though he believed himself to be ignorant, pronounced him to be the wisest of all men.