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There Has Been Opposition To Experimenting On Animals For A Long Time. This Opposition Has Made Little Headway Because Experimenters, Backed By Commercial Firms That Profit By Supplying Laboratory Animals And Equipment, Have Been Able To Convince Legislators And The Public That Opposition Comes From Uninformed Fanatics Who Consider The Interests Of Animals More Important Than The Interests Of Human Beings.

Surely There Will Be Some Nonhuman Animals Whose Lives, By Any Standards, Are More Valuable Than The Lives Of Some Humans.

The Capacity To Reason Is A Special Sort Of Capacity Because It Can Lead Us To Places That We Did Not Expect To Go.

To Be A Utilitarian Means That You Judge Actions As Right Or Wrong In Accordance With Whether They Have Good Consequences. So You Try To Do What Will Have The Best Consequences For All Of Those Affected.

According To The Dominant Western Tradition, The Natural World Exists For The Benefit Of Human Beings.