Sentences with phrase «in animal pain»

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The pain «comes from a powerful toxin secreted by the animal's tail,» marine biologist Chris Lowe told NPR in 2014.

Blind faith, unconsciousness, fanatic make - believe Like wounded animal, tries to defend itself Imagined enemies and threats to it's own myth Cause pain and suffering in it's own hell

It obliges us to deal with animals in a reasonable fashion, carefully refraining from causing them unnecessary pain.

Two questions come immediately to mind: (I) whether real human kindness and sympathy are, or can be, encountered in the slaughterhouse, in the circus and the rodeo, in the forced captivity of wild animals in zoos, and in pain research in biomedical laboratories, and (2) whether our abuse and destruction of members of other sentient species for our benefit alone can be a truly moral goal for mankind.

My life was turned upside down a couple years back in a situation that led to the dissolution of my marriage, I also work in animal rescue, which brings me constant anxiety that animals I know and care about may not make it, and frequently the actual crushing pain of losing them.

Animals killed in the temple were killed in a way designed to minimise pain by slitting an artery just under the skin so that they would quietly lose consciousness.

Therefore, Singer says, causing these animals pain — killing them for food, caging them while they produce eggs, shackling them and kidnapping them for exhibition in a zoo — subverts their preferences and is wrong.

In addition to ending unnecessary experimentation in science and the unnecessary infliction of pain on animals in industry and agribusiness, we should end many other practices that society currently sanctionIn addition to ending unnecessary experimentation in science and the unnecessary infliction of pain on animals in industry and agribusiness, we should end many other practices that society currently sanctionin science and the unnecessary infliction of pain on animals in industry and agribusiness, we should end many other practices that society currently sanctionin industry and agribusiness, we should end many other practices that society currently sanctions.

this guy is lucky he had this moron in his life because he is a MORON he forgot this animal cause pain to his mother too I wonder what his mother is saying!

In this second sense of the term, the «innocence» of the fetus is like that of the animals: an incapacity to distinguish right from wrong but a capacity to experience pain.

We can do something to alleviate pain in the animal world, if only by refusing to inflict suffering beyond absolute necessity.

Jewish Law prohibits causing any pain to animals, the slaughtering has to be effected in such a way that unconsciousness is instantaneous and death occurs almost instantaneously.

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[37] In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[124] In light of Christ's actions as the perfect second Adam, this writer would suggest that Christians have the God - given right to use those means to capture wild animals for food etc. that are economically efficient, while considering animal pain.

In light of these remarkable claims, one may wonder how Christians could support trapping with devices that inflict so much pain on target and non-target animals alike.

Because nonhuman animals are not, by hypothesis, capable of developing such virtues, it is hard to see why a creator who is both omnipotent and benevolent would make them so susceptible to pain (insofar as warning devices are needed, omnipotence could have fashioned nonpainful ones, as pointed out in the book Catch 22).

As I re-read the story it seemed obvious it couldn't really be history — or if it was, it was completely unverifiable: Eve is created from Adam's rib; a snake converses with and tempts Eve; God puts a very desirable fruit tree in the garden then commands man not to eat it; eating this fruit causes all the world's pain and suffering; God curses Adam, Eve, their descendents, and the earth; «every living thing» is destroyed by a worldwide flood; all our modern animals descend from the originals on Noah's Ark; and so on.

Our work alongside the Princess Alia Foundation in Jordan has seen pre-slaughter stunning introduced in the major government abattoir, creating a significant precedent in the Middle East and sparing Australian and many other animals from the pain and suffering of fully conscious slaughter.

Pork: In 2012, Aramark committed to eliminate all pork from animals bred using gestation crates by 2017; it will also work to address issues of pain relief associated with castration and the eventual elimination of tail docking, as well as eventual elimination of the use of ractopamine.

It is reaffirming its commitment of refusing to buy foie gras, and will now work with its chicken and turkey suppliers to address welfare issues associated with genetic selection for rapid growth, which produces chronic pain and a lack of mobility in the animals.

Euthanasia (even when the recipient is in untold pain) is still a hotly debated subject... Kevin Peiterson plays cricket, cricket balls are made of cow hide, not synthetic leather yet he wants to lead a protest against animal cruelty, ironic indeed.

Normally this circumstance would result in putting the animals down and out of his misery but he did nt seem to be in any pain.

Coming upon those caged animals in Tampa moved McLain deeply because his own memories of the unforgettable pain of being caged were too fresh.

An overproduction of adrenalin follows the initial wound, they claim, which makes the animal impervious to further pain or shock, giving it in its last moments of life a superanimal strength.

Dr. Carlos Sanchez, who curates the online community, saw an animal in pain and knew he had to respond to the call for help.

If your baby enjoys animals, this teether may be a great option since it would encourage your baby to use it when in pain.

The paper found that the mere presence of men in the lab induced such intense stress in rodents that it altered how the animals reacted to pain.

A raft of studies in laboratory animals, molecular models and cancer patients suggest that pain drugs given during and after cancer surgery stimulate the growth and spread of certain tumors.

In normal animals, peripheral nerve injury produces a persistent, neuropathic pain state in which pain is exaggerated and can be produced by nonpainful stimulIn normal animals, peripheral nerve injury produces a persistent, neuropathic pain state in which pain is exaggerated and can be produced by nonpainful stimulin which pain is exaggerated and can be produced by nonpainful stimuli.

Animal studies have revealed several ways in which opioids may amplify pain signals in the central nervous system, suggesting targets for drugs that could counter the effect.

In animal models, acupuncture appears to impact the same biologic pathways ramped up by pain and stress, analogous to what drugs do in humanIn animal models, acupuncture appears to impact the same biologic pathways ramped up by pain and stress, analogous to what drugs do in humanin humans.

The animals» baseline pain threshold had changed, and the effect was something more than tolerance, in which the body requires increasing doses of a drug to get the same effect.

Those animals with more active forms of the gene had higher numbers of mu receptors in their tissues — and higher tolerances for pain.

«These results are exciting because you don't need a whole cocktail of other drugs to fully reverse the pathological pain in the animals,» Hohmann said.

The study — which looked at the action of Substance P within nerve cells in the lab and in animal models — focused on acute pain, but Professor Gamper aims to look at its role within chronic pain as well.

Researchers had previously proposed that sounds made by different animals during similar experiences — when they were in pain, for example — would share acoustic traits.

In the new study, Ji's group put SHANK3 - deficient mice through a battery of sensory tests, finding that the animals had lower sensitivity than normal mice to heat and heat - related pain — akin to the soreness a person feels after a sunburn.

«Most pain medications that have been tested in the past decade have failed in phase II human trials despite performing well in animal models,» notes Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, director of Boston Children's F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and a co-senior investigator on the study with Michael Costigan, PhD.

When scientists gave an oral dose of NB001 to rats suffering from chronic pain, the animals were rid of their symptoms in just 45 minutes.

But first he had to give the animals chronic pain, by crimping a nerve in one of their legs.

Dr. Zhuo's team also found a novel molecule, called NB001, which can specifically block neuronal pre-LTP, and has powerful analgesic, or pain - reducing, effects in animal models of chronic pain.

The agency also began reexamining its own standards for monitoring pain and distress in lab animals.

Citing the Bible and articles in the Washington Post, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia proposed the legislation, admonishing his colleagues, «These are animals, yes, but they, too, feel pain....

Our knowledge of the neural pathways that underlie behaviour has allowed us to search for the site of pain in these animals, but it is still unclear.

In animal and human history, the fungus has been known to cause delirium, irrational behavior, convulsions, severe pain, gangrenous limbs and death.

Even animal - rights groups were partially pleased with the outcome, with the Dr Hadwen Trust, a U.K. medical - research charity that promotes the use of alternatives to animal research, citing positive changes such as improved pain - severity classifications and more investment in alternatives to animal testing.

This week we report on proposals to genetically engineer livestock to be untroubled by pain — something all too common in intensively farmed animals...

New pain «severity» classifications outline mild (a change in diet or taking a blood sample), moderate, and severe animal pain or distress (arthritis, major surgery, and migraine)-- criteria that will inform other parts of the directive.