issue: animal research
Friday 2 June 2006
'Animals are less valuable than human beings'
Leading researcher John Martin tells Helene Guldberg why it is morally justifiable to cause heart attacks in rats - and why he isn’t scared of animal rights extremists.
Friday 29 July 2005
Singer on 'speciesism': a specious argument
In his new book In Defense of Animals, Peter Singer reduces the value of human life to a tick-list of capabilities.
Friday 26 November 2004
Stop apologising for animal experiments
We don’t need more laws against animal rights activists, but a more robust defence of animal experimentation.