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...fairness,” said McAuliffe. “Do primates care if they are in a set up where another individual gets way more food than they get?” Hasuer said that her work could potentially provide the first example of spiteful behavior in a non-human animal. While he said he is excited about the challenges that lie ahead and the new questions he will be able to answer using dogs, he said that he has been working with the monkeys for 16 years and has gotten to know them well. “It?...
...right, Switzerland—a country run by adults—has granted the right of dignity to plants.The Monty-Pythonesque task of defining plants’ dignity was given, of course, to a twelve-person committee of scholars—the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH). The committee rose to the occasion by producing a 22-page report entitled: “The dignity of living beings with regard to plants. Moral consideration of plants for their own sake,” which went on to win the 2008 Ig Nobel Peace prize earlier this month.As...
Worries persist among online bloggers and Werker’s colleagues about the idea of opening local elections to non-human entities...
...control what it cannot comprehend: science. And it worries that scientists, taking advantage of its ignorance, will spiral out of control, that technology will subsume humanity. Such fears have been poignantly crystallized in movies such as “Gattaca,” where the quest for genetic perfection leads to a new, scientific apartheid, or “Blade Runner,” in which cloning has blurred the line between human and non-human beyond recognition. The way that society has chosen to deal with that fear is to hold scientists at arms length, to label them...
...worst” university laboratories in the country, according to a national animal rights group. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) pinpointed the New England National Primate Research Center at Harvard Medical School (HMS) for what the organization sees as the center’s abuse of non-human primates. PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk described the University’s laboratories as “an animal Abu Ghraib” in a press release. “With Harvard, one of the big points for us is that they imprison about 2000 primates...