Exam 16: Animal Rights

Consider the practice of scientific experimentation on animals,in which,for example,the benefits gained from the research greatly outweigh the suffering involved.In this case,a Singer utilitarian may want to ________ the research,and a Regan animal rights advocate would want to ________ the research.

Animal rights activists waged a highly effective campaign against the practice of seal hunting,an activity that constituted the heart of Canadian Inuit culture and identity.The campaign devastated the Inuit economy and created a host of health,social,and cultural problems for them.Whose moral outlook would likely be kinder to the Inuit on this issue?

Tom Regan argues that:

Suppose you believe,with Peter Singer,that we should give equal consideration for comparable interests.And suppose you also know that currently the meat industry (which uses factory farming)causes immense suffering to millions of sentient creatures to produce only moderate pleasures for humans.What,then,follows from these statements?

According to Peter Singer,if a man and a dog were both experiencing intense pain,we must assume that: