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Peter Singer acknowledges that some animal testing is ethical

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Posted: Nov 26, 2006

In particular, testing of treatments for dementias and degenerative neurological diseases like Parkinsons could even be warranted on apes. This implies either Singer’s moving away from strict non-speciesism, as the commentators suggest, or an acceptance of non-beneficial research on cognitively equivalent humans (children, etc.)…

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