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From a utilitarian perspective, animals have rights so long as they may suffer.

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Justifications for animal experimentation typically appeal to reasoning?

A) Utilitarian
B) Categorical imperative
C) Relative
D) Natural law

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What is the difference between animal welfare concerns and animal rights concerns? (Be sure to incorporate a discussion of moral agency and moral patience into your answer.)

Globally, how many animal species are considered to be endangered?

Animals are moral patients if what we do to them matters morally.

Which of the following moral perspectives best represents Singer's approach to animal ethics?

Singer begins his argument by comparing animal rights to

Which of the following is true of vivisection, as it is practiced today?

According to your text, the "animal welfare" approach may serve as an intermediate approach, between animal rights perspectives and more anthropocentric perspectives.

In light of the discussion in your text, which of the following gives the best reason to believe that animals have intrinsic value?

About how many animals are used for experiments each year in the US?

By calling something a moral agent, we mean that it is a being that has rights.

Peter Singer compares "speciesism" with racism. Explain Singer's point. Using the concepts you've learned (from this and earlier chapters of your text)evaluate Singer's argument.

Descartes thought animal consciousness was equivalent to human consciousness.

What would convince you to be a vegan? In your argument, incorporate the difference between veganism and vegetarianism. Be sure to refer to specific moral criteria (e.g., consequentialist theories, non-consequentialist theories, care ethics, etc.).

From the anthropocentric perspective the idea that we should curtail human activities to preserve a nonhuman species is generally anchored in which of our ethical theories?

The idea of "equal consideration" refers to an equal consideration of moral rights.

A so-called "right" refers to a strong and legitimate moral claim.

We have duties toward animals only if they have rights.

Sentience refers to an animal's ability to