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Peter Singer on Human Use of Animals

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The Immorality of Being a Vegetarian

I think part of living a morally good life should be having concern for the consequences of what you do. I live in Oxford where there's a large building just being built specifically to do research on animals. A lot of medical research is done through trials with humans and we've also greatly increased the amount of research we can do using tissue cultures. There are other ways of surviving because you can be a vegetarian but how could you do medical research without doing animal experimentation?

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