Animals are intelligent in ways humans aren’t, but having greater intelligence has never allowed one human to abuse another human, so why should it allow humans to abuse nonhumans?
No animals shall be ill-treated or be subject to cruel acts. If an animal has to be killed, this must be instantaneous and without distress. (Bender & Leone 20).
Ask experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is "because animals are like us." Ask experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animals experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
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