Utilitarianism and Replaceability or Are Animals Expendable?

Utilitarianism, Conscience and Animals

Fasting and Experimental Animals, Detrimental or Positive?

While fasting has been practiced for centuries, its beneficial effects was unknown until recently. This review tries to analyze the current literature of how fasting and intermittent fasting (IF) could affect clinical pathological parameters, learning, mood and brain plasticity. The effects of different ways of fasting on metabolism and stress were also explored. Animal experiments have elucida...

Are Animals Stuck in Time or Are They Chronesthetic Creatures?

Although psychologists study both the objective (behavior) and the subjective (phenomenology) components of cognition, we argue that an overemphasis on the subjective drives a wedge between psychology and other closely related scientific disciplines, such as comparative studies of cognition and artificial intelligence. This wedge is particularly apparent in contemporary studies of episodic reco...

Native Thistles: Expendable or Integral to Ecosystem Resistance to Invasion?

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On Replaceability

Peter Singer has shown how the principle of utility, which enjoins us (roughly) to maximize to balance of nonmoral good over nonmoral evil, justifies 'humane' treatment of ani­­­ mals. 1 An excellent case against fac­­­ tory farming, blood sports, and cur­­­ rent methods of an imal laboratory experimentation has been made on utilitarian grounds. However, must a utilitarian be opposed to all exp...