By Jeffrey Skopek Since 1960, the weight of an average live domesticated turkey has nearly doubled from around 15 to 30 pounds. And current estimates are that 30 million pounds of antibiotics are used in livestock production per year (which represents 80 percent of the total volume of antibiotics sold in the United States for…
By Efthimios Parasidis In the United States, over 250 million turkeys are slaughtered each year, with over 45 million just for Thanksgiving. The overwhelming majority of these birds (over 99%) are a genetically engineered and industrially-farmed breed known as Broad Breasted White. As the name suggests, this breed of turkey has an unnatural abundance of…
Video of the lecture is now available online. By Chloe Reichel Last Friday, Princeton ethicist Peter Singer joined Petrie-Flom for a lecture on “Ethics and Animals: Where are we now?” Singer began his talk with a historical look back at various religious and philosophical views of the relationship between humans and animals. He traced the…
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By Jeffrey Skopek In a fascinating opinion piece in the New York Times this past weekend, neuroeconomist Gregory Berns writes: “For the past two years, my colleagues and I have been training dogs to go in an M.R.I. scanner — completely awake and unrestrained. Our goal has been to determine how dogs’ brains work and,…
By I. Glenn Cohen If you were watching television this week you may have seen this clip of a taste test for hamburger meat grown in a “test tube” in London discussed here. The meat was grown from stem cells from existing cows used to grow 20,000 strands of tissue. Costing more than $330,000 to…
By Jeffrey Skopek Last month, two federal agencies took steps that together may come close to ending research on chimpanzees in the United States. First, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed to list all chimpanzees, including those in captivity, as endangered. (Currently, only wild chimpanzees are listed as endangered, while captive chimpanzees are listed…
By Arthur Caplan An article in today’s New York Times explores allegations of improper research practices at GlaxoSmithKline’s research and development center in Shanghai, China. The article quotes Art Caplan in reference to evidence that researchers proceeded with drug trials in humans before animal studies were complete: “If that’s true, it’s a mortal sin in…
