Animal Rights: the Debate explores the issues around around our relationship with animals with hosts Martyn Ford and David Thomas.
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In this episode, Martyn and David discuss topical issues in the news which are distinct but also connected – the richness of animals’ lives, their cognitive abilities, and sentience; the benefits to neuroscience from studying animals’ brains, and the implication this has for animal ethics; our commodification of animals such as dogs and farm animals; and the environmental degradation caused by intensive farming.
Richard Ryder has been dubbed the father of animal rights in this country, coining the term ‘speciesism’ to describe our irrational approach to non-human animals. He has published a dozen books, including, most famously, Victims of Science, described in Parliament …continue
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In this episode, we talk to Pandora Pound of Safer Medicine (UK) and Rachel Smith of Animal Free Research Advocacy (Australia), about the reliability (or otherwise) of research using animals and how researchers got hooked on using animals despite highly …continue
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Our knowledge of [other] animals has increased hugely over the last few decades, and so it has become more difficult to deny them the same sort of moral consideration we grant our own species. Professor Grace Clement of Salisbury University …continue
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