{"id":961,"date":"2006-12-06T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2006\/12\/06\/peter-singer-animal-testing-utilitarianism"},"modified":"2006-12-06T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T09:41:00","slug":"peter-singer-animal-testing-utilitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2006\/12\/06\/peter-singer-animal-testing-utilitarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Singer \/ Animal Testing &amp; Utilitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~psinger\/10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"151\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~psinger\/10.jpg\" width=\"215\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilitarian.net\/singer\/by\/1997----.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Singer <\/a>has been in the news again. While most well-known for his advocacy of animal rights, he has surprised many by claming that some animal testing may be justified. While some animals rights campaigners may be shocked &#8211; students may recongise the view that, as he is a utilitarian (of some kind), he would not have an <strong><em>in principle<\/em><\/strong>, objection &#8211; if the benefit can be said to outweigh the harm. Read here: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/people\/profiles\/article2035119.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/people\/profiles\/article2035119.ece<\/a> about Singer&#8217;s recent statements &#8211; and his seeming ability to upset just about everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your view of animal testing? Is it justified in a consequentialist manner? On some other grounds? Or not at all?<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><em>Dave<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher Peter Singer has been in the news again. While most well-known for his advocacy of animal rights, he has surprised many by claming that some animal testing may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52,53,54,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal","category-ethics","category-peter","category-singer","category-utilitarianism"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}