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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, animal husbandry, animal personhood, animal standing, animal welfare, Argentina, chimpanzees, elephant, Florida, Germany, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, orangutan, PETA, slaves, species barrier}

In Germany, Constitutional Rights for…Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 20, 2019

Bioethics

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The issue is known as “animal standing,” and activists want to let beasts sue in court to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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, __edited, animal rights, animal standing, animal welfare, Auschwitz, Bronx Zoo, elephant, extremists, Happy, ideology, liberty, New York City, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, PETA, Thailand, The Guardian, writ of habeas corpus}

Lawsuit to Declare Elephant a “Person”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 2, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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“Animal standing” is really a Trojan horse to allow animal rights extremists to seek court rulings enforcing their own ideology. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, beekeeping, clothing, death camps, Dogs, Holocaust, horses, humans, medical research, patriarchy, PETA, pets, rabbits, speciesism, The Conversation}

It’s Unjust Patriarchy to Own a Pet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 6, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Corey Lee Wrenn argues that what is done to an animal should be judged in the same fashion as if the same thing were done to a human. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 20, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, BBC News, cell lines, computer program, conservatives, enzyme, function, gene, King’s College London, Maryland, monkeys, PETA, rats, spinal cord, stroke, viruses}

We Need the Grim Good of Animal Research

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 20, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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Scientists researching gene therapy as a potential future therapy have succeeded in restoring feeling to paralyzed rats. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 24, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animal standing, Constitution, copyright, courts, duties, PETA, Supreme Court, Titanic}

Court Takes Half-Step Toward Animals Suing

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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I know Judge Bea, who wrote this decision — and he’s no left-wing radical. So, I think the court is sending a warning. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 4, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animal welfare, assault, bombing, Breitbart, coercion, misanthropy, PETA, pigs, terrorism, veganism, video, youtube}

It’s Unfair to Tie Animal Rights to the YouTube Shooting

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 4, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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The YouTube shooter — I don’t believe in naming these people — did not fit the expected profile. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 27, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, beef, chicken, environmentalism, greenhouse gases, healthcare, Left, marijuana, meat, Paris accords, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, supermarket, The Atlantic}

Here Comes the Push for a Tax on Meat

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 27, 2018

Bioethics

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Because you know, eating meat to environmentalists and animal rights activists is a terrible sin. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 6, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, bombs, experiments, feelings, Ingrid Newkirk, laboratory, medicine, mice, neurons, Nuremberg Code, PETA, Research, schizophrenia, thinking, wrist}

Animal Researchers Should Be Proud

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 6, 2018

Medicine

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We are often awed at the medical miracles that save so many of our lives and alleviate unquantifiable levels of human suffering. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 15, 2017

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, animal rights, animal welfare, chimpanzees, Connecticut, currency, dolphins, elephants, frivolous lawsuit, humans, inflation, law, personhood, PETA, property, zoo}

Elephants Sue for Habeas Corpus

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 15, 2017

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism

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The point here isn’t to prevent abuse, if it exists. We have animal-welfare laws for that. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 16, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, copyright, courts, creativity, frivolous lawsuits, lawsuits, PETA, photography, San Francisco, Wales}

PETA Should Be Treated as a Vexatious Litigant

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 16, 2017

Bioethics

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There was never any chance a monkey would be granted a copyright. Read More ›