Peter Singer

Peter Singer has influentially argued that animals’ interests must be given equal consideration to comparable human interests-so that, for example, a human’s and an animal’s interest in avoiding suffering should be considered equally morally important (Degrazia, Mappes, & Brand-Ballard, 2011, pg. 251). Animals have their own way of life and are not exactly made like humans. How are we able to trust research that works on animals but may not work on humans? Because our species are very different, animal experimentation should not be conducted and is morally unacceptable.