Webster's Dictionary defines vivisection as the action of cutting into or dissecting a living body, and the practice of subjecting living animals to cutting operations, especially in order to advance physiological and pathological knowledge (878). ... Peter Singer, a professor of ethics at Princeton University, is often considered the Father of the animal rights movement, says in his book Animal Liberation, "If humans have basic rights, such as rights to be spared unnecessary suffering, then animals have those rights, too, the fact that a being is not a member of our species has nothing t...

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