Non-Human Ethics

Ethical Review of Animal Research and the Standards of Procedural Justice: A European Perspective

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Original Research Open Access. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Published online 20 July 2021. Tomasz Pietrzykowski Abstract: Committees established for the ethical review of research involving animals have become a widespread legal standard around the world. Despite many differences in their composition, powers, and institutional settings, they share many common problems related to the well-established standards…

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The Ethics of In Vitro Flesh and Enhanced Animals

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The consumption of animal products has received increasing bioethical scrutiny for a number of reasons. These include rising levels of obesity, environmental degradation, climate change, zoonotic disease, and moral concerns with the treatment of animals. A novel technology that is being developed, partly to address some of these concerns, is the production of “in vitro…

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