EIP6 Animals

17. All Animals are Equal — Peter Singer

18. Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism — R. G. Frey

19. The Case for Animal Rights — Tom Regan

20. The Vegetarian Imperative — Michael Allen Fox

Allen, Colin. Animal Cognition, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Browne, Derek. "Carruthers on the Deficits of Animals", Psyche. Review of Peter Carruthers' The Animals Question (1992, Cambridge University Press).
Charlton, Bruce. "Evolution and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Awareness, Consciousness, and Language". University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
"A Universal Declaration on Animal Sentience: No Pretending." Column in Psychology Today arguing for animal sentience.
Scottish researchers claim to have shown that dolphins are named by their pods and respond to their names.
Fellows, Roger. "Animal Belief", Paeida Project Online.
An elephant painting a self-portrait.
Scientific American debate "Can Animals Empathize?" — Con by Daniel J. Povinelli; Pro by George Gallup, Jr. [Word docs]

Institute for Critical Animal Studies. Essays and information on Animal Liberation, run by philosopher Stephen Best.
Holton, Richard & Rae Langton. "Empathy and Animal Ethics", in Dale Jamieson (ed.) Singer and His Critics, Blackwell (1998). [PDF]
LaFollette, Hugh. "Animal Rights and Human Wrongs", in N. Dower (ed.), Ethics and the Environment, Gower Press (1989). [PDF]
LaFollette, Hugh & Shanks, Niall. "Animal Experimentation: the Legacy of Claude Bernard", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
LaFollette, Hugh & Shanks, Niall. "On the Origin of Speciesism", Philosophy (1996). [PDF]
LaFollette, Hugh & Shanks, Niall. "Util-izing Animals", Journal of Applied Philosophy (1995). [PDF]
Philosophical essays on animal rights. A collection including works by Peter Singer and Tom Regan.
Rachels, James. "Why Darwinians Should Support Equal Treatment for Other Great Apes", in The Great Ape Project.
Rachels, James. "Vegetarianism and the 'Other Weight Problem", in World Hunger and Moral Obligation, W. Aiken & H. LaFollette (eds.), Prentice-Hall, 1976. [PDF]
Varner, Gary. "Animal Rights v. Animal Welfare". Online lecture, Texas A&M.

Americans, Europeans, and Japanese for Medical Advancement. Physicians and others opposed to biomedical experimentation using animals.
Animals and Society Institute.
Christian Vegetarian Association. Group that holds that Christians should be vegetarians.
Human-animal relationships, University of Montana.
Legal status of animals, Rutgers Law School.
The other white meat. An exposé on pig farming (Rolling Stone).
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (advocacy group).
Religion and vegetarianism.
Vegetarianism, American Dietetic Association position.
Vegetarianism (and Veganism) and empathy. Discussion including a link to the original research.
Vegetarianism and Global Warming. Claim that going vegetarian reduces global warming more than buying a hybrid car.

Resources for "Animals"