The rights of humans and other animals

Ethics and Behavior 7 (2):103 – 111 (1997)
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Human moral rights place justified limits on what people are free to do to one another. Animals also have moral rights, and arguments to support the use of animals in scientific research based on the benefits allegedly derived from animal model research are thus invalid. Animals do not belong in laboratories because placing them there, in the hope of benefits for others, violates their rights.

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Thomas Regan
Last affiliation: North Carolina State University

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The Case for Animal Rights.Tom Regan - 2004 - Univ of California Press.
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