{"id":1056,"date":"2009-03-17T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2009-03-17T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:22:28","slug":"1056","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/1056\/","title":{"rendered":"ASI Diary on Scientific Research or Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalsandsociety.org\/index.php\">Objective Scientific Research or Subjective Scientific Propaganda?<\/a>, at the Diary of the Animals and Society Institute.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study assessed 21 books, including Henry Salt&#8217;s <em>Animal Rights<\/em>, Ruth Harrison&#8217;s <em>Animal Machines<\/em>, Peter Singer&#8217;s <em>Animal Liberation<\/em> and Mary Midgley&#8217;s <em>Animals and Why They Matter<\/em>. After analyzing the books&#8217; contents (that&#8217;s 4,562 pages) they determined that 56.9 percent (2,598 pages) were &#8220;concerned primarily with the ethical\/moral questions regarding the use of animals by humans.&#8221; No surprises there, then. The authors then went on to consider the 1,680 pages (36.8 percent) that were &#8220;critical of the various ways in which we exploit animals.&#8221; They found that the majority of these pages focused on animal research. Not that surprising, perhaps, given that animal experimentation is generally recognized as a major area of concern. Then, Nicoll and Russell take us on a scenic route of arbitrary and unrelated issues in order to park their thesis where they want it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my post, Objective Scientific Research or Subjective Scientific Propaganda?, at the Diary of the Animals and Society Institute. The study assessed 21 books, including Henry Salt&#8217;s Animal Rights, Ruth Harrison&#8217;s Animal Machines, Peter Singer&#8217;s Animal Liberation and Mary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/1056\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,31],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-animals-in-research","tag-testing-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}