MDSB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sentience, Sildenafil, Practical Reason
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Operates in 140 countries, including canada (head office is in dorval, quebec) Research and development 2013: usd 9. 6 billion (16. 6% of net sales) Ranks #2 in sales world-wide (behind pfizer, maker of. It is not larger cages, but empty cages, that animal rightists call for. (tar 27) For regan, sentience in non-human animals does not always differ enough from basic human sentience and subjectivity to warrant this kind of difference in treatment and consideration. The reasons humans have moral rights are equivalent to the reasons non-human animals have moral rights. From [the rightists"] perspective, the use of nonhuman animals in scientific research is wrong in principle, not simply occasionally wrong in practice. These animals do not belong in laboratories in the first place: they do not belong there because placing them there, in the hope of gaining benefits for others, violates their [moral] rights. (tar 27)
