{"id":8608,"date":"2011-02-08T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2011-02-08T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T08:55:36","slug":"animal-testing-fails-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/02\/animal-testing-fails-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal-Testing Fails Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8609\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/11.jpg?resize=205%2C245\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/11.jpg?w=205&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/11.jpg?resize=80%2C96&amp;ssl=1 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals,<br \/>\nand the answer is:<br \/>\n&#8216;Because the animals are like us&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals,<br \/>\nand the answer is:<br \/>\n&#8216;Because the animals are not like us&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8211; Dr. Charles R. Magel, Professor of Ethics at Moorhead State University<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we are so similar to animals,<br \/>\nwould it be okay for animals to experiment on us?<br \/>\nNo, as it would be inhumane.<\/p>\n<p>If we are so dissimilar to animals,<br \/>\nwould it be okay for animals to experiment on us?<br \/>\nNo, as it would be inhumane.<\/p>\n<p>Sentient beings are sentient beings,<br \/>\nno matter what species they are of.<br \/>\nTo ignore this is to lose part of our humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: &#8216;Because the animals are like us&#8217;. Ask the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-8608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-humanity","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}