Animal Rights
In Animal Rights
Animal research - a defence
- By Simon Festing
- 14 March 2008
Our debate about animal research continues with a call for a more sophisticated dialogue from the Research Defence Society's Dr Simon Festing
Battling vivisection in the courts
- By Michelle Thew
- 06 March 2008
Next week the UK Government is set to try to overturn a 2007 High Court ruling it has been unlawfully licensing animal experiments
Abusing the weak
- By Alistair Currie
- 04 March 2008
We don’t believe that sacrificing a few babies would be worth it if it helped to cure cancer – and we are absolutely right, writes Peta's Alistair Currie
An issue that polarises
- By Barney Reed
- 28 February 2008
Humans must carefully consider how we interact with any animal, in the wild, on farms, in laboratories or in our homes, argues the RSPCA's Barney Reed
A moral claim not to feel pain
- By Lisa Bortolotti
- 28 February 2008
'Intensive farming and the use of animals in the entertainment industry raise even more pressing ethical questions than the use of animals in biomedical research'
Animal responsibilities
- By Alison Hills
- 28 February 2008
Scientists have to assess the good that may come from what they do and the harms that they will impose, and try to make sure that their acts come out on the side of the good
Animal rights, human wrongs
- By Sholto Byrnes
- 28 February 2008
As he takes up his new role at the Food Standards Agency, Colin Blakemore talks about animal rights, research and "pseudo-Buddhism" plus check out our debate on this controversial issue
