“To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.” IfsUseLightActionSpeakPrinciplesExpressionCurrentsNervousNervesElectricSymbolicMagnetismElectric Current Author:Johannes Peter Muller
“Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.” IfsWayNeedsFeelsHumansMayDoePurposeSufferingOrderForceHuman BeingsAnimalClaimsStressDenyExperimentsNervousLiberationShockElectricRatsRelevanceStarvationSimilarityDefendersNervous SystemAnimal LiberationUlcersAnimal SufferingElectric ShockExperiments On Animals Author:Peter Singer