Sentences with phrase «questioning whether animals»

The veterinary paradigm has shifted from questioning whether animals feel pain to recognizing and treating their pain.

I'm always surprised when neuroscientists question whether an animal like a lion or a dog is conscious.

A recent New York Times article goes further and raises the question whether animals could be granted private legal standing themselves to sue their captors.

Not exact matches

«The question is going to be, with the animal spirits having sort of disappeared here and the classic risk taking mode, whether we're going to continue to see this gapping around, which I think will look more like recent sequential quarters than it would like the healthy first quarter we saw last year,» he said.

As for Elanco, it turned in less - than - stellar performance in the third quarter of last year, reviving questions about whether Lilly might spin off what has long been a leading player in animal health.

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.

But I think anyone who acts like there are no ethical questions to ponder regarding whether or not to kill and consume an animal is in serious denial.

Nevertheless, I would like to raise the question whether Whitehead is not after all guilty of emphasizing and generalizing some factor that may indeed be peculiar to man and the higher animals, at the expense of another factor which could offer more genuine grounds for generalization.

Whether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gWhether and how far these reflections concerning a positive relation between spirit and matter may be significant when it is a question of asking in philosophical and theological terms whether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in gwhether an ontological connection between man and the animal kingdom asserted by the natural sciences to be a fact, is open to an explanatory interpretation on the basis of the nature of spirit and matter, can only be judged after we have examined some aspects of «becoming» in general.

The question of whether such structures exist and what they are is always an empirical question, but whatever they may be, in their transcendence of what man shares with the animal they may be thought of as part of human nature.

Begging the question of whether an animal has a right to life in the face of a «necessity» that is neither economically nor medically established, it can most surely be argued that if an animal's destiny is to be slaughtered, this should be carried out with some respect for the creature.

Christians should ask a third question namely, whether the rise in the status of pets to family member, as denoted by the term «companion animal», is an appropriate attitude for a Biblical Christian.

The question is instead whether evolutionary theory has been correct in excluding animal purpose altogether from the explanation of biological evolution generally.

Without taking a strong stand on the controversial question of whether inter-species relationships ought to be governed by justice — in other words, the question of whether we owe anything to animals as such — the author establishes all sorts of interesting parallels between evolutionary biology and traditional theology in this area, as well as challenges from one to the other.

But the question relevant to theodicy concerns theological determinism, which is whether God fully determines the behavior of physical processes, including the behavior of animals.

This episode of the One Verse Podcast concerns the question about whether or not animals go to heaven.

«The question remains whether the same gains in animal welfare could have been made through a simpler, clearer and ultimately cheaper system.»

I question whether or not an animal that is meant to have this instinctual bond to care for their young might become numb after having this process repeated for so long.

Fairfax Media revealed on Monday that Animals Australia and the RSPCA, previously supportive of Coles» efforts to improve its egg range had questioned whether eggs from intensive free - range systems could be called free range.

But the next big question was whether these cells could home in on tumors in lab dishes, and in animals, like neural stem cells.

The million - dollar question was whether the rest of the animals» central nervous system could reprogram itself to make use of this additional information.

Boiled alive and torn limb from limb — it's time we took seriously the question of whether animals like squid, octopus and lobsters suffer

The answer to the question of whether the sponges or the comb jellies (also known as sea gooseberries) represent the oldest extant animal phylum is of crucial importance to our understanding of organismic evolution.

In How Animals Grieve, anthropologist Barbara King sets out to explore the question of whether non-human animals grieve for theiAnimals Grieve, anthropologist Barbara King sets out to explore the question of whether non-human animals grieve for theianimals grieve for their dead.

Asked whether brain organoids can achieve consciousness without sensory organs and other means of perceiving the world, Koch said it would experience something different than what people and other animals do: «It raises the question, what is it conscious of?»

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

Another important question, Turnbaugh says, is whether the transplants will have the same effect in animals who weren't raised in a sterile environment and who already have their own gut microbiome.

In Norway and Spain, for example, people are now questioning whether feelings for animals and the enjoyment of the countryside might not be swamping true scientific learning.

Whether animals feel emotion, and are capable of suffering, is a question the answer to which has far - reaching implications.

One question in an animal cognition is whether animals other than humans have the ability to recognise themselves.

It is carefully — even beautifully — done, but I think this question of whether animals can and do have cumulative culture is still open,» says Claudio Tennie, a comparative psychologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany who was not involved with the work.

Until recently, researchers could study signature whistles only in captive animals — raising the question of whether the whistle developed in response to capture, isolation, or stress.

And the question has been whether an animal without that kind of language based representation can still notice or represent these commonalities.»

Ohsumi and his colleagues set out to explore whether yeast, a single - celled organism that nevertheless uses many of the same biochemical processes as animal cells, could help answer some of the outstanding questions.

«As with all good studies, this one generates many new questions,» says Staffan Bensch, an animal ecologist at Lund University in Sweden, who wonders whether the virus has benefitted some songbird species by killing off their avian predators, jays and crows.

The IOM committee left open the possibility that chimpanzees may be a necessary animal model to address future emerging or reemerging diseases, which raised the question of whether NIH will readdress its 17 - year - old ban on funding the breeding of chimpanzees for research.

In future, such data may be key to figuring out whether groups of dogs form complex social hierarchies like wild wolves — a hotly debated question in animal psychology.

Paleontologists often find fossils in a jumble containing many species» remains, and then struggle with the question of whether the mixed bones represent the community as it existed when the animals lived.

Red light travels such short distances in water that many scientists had questioned whether deep - sea animals could even see it.

However, because they don't engage the immune system the way antibodies do, and because of questions of stability and potency, it was not clear whether they would be able to prevent infection in animals, or eventually, in humans.

«Thus,» the authors write to describe the previous state of the research, «it still remains an open question whether any nonhuman animal can attribute the concept «seeing» without relying on behavioral cues.»

However, NAD + is an unstable compound, calling into question whether it could be used out of the petri dish and in a live animal.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

This reminded one of us (JMT), a specialist on fossil hoofed mammals, of questions she has received on whether a particular ancient animal would have been kosher.

Given that sexual reproduction is widespread among animals and sperm production appears to be present in all major phyla of metazoan animals, it raised a question whether any male - biased reproductive gene could be exempt from such selective pressure and remain conserved through extended evolutionary distances.

Researchers quickly grasped, with a frenzied enthusiasm, how remotely controlling the activity of a specific neuronal type in a fine temporal scale, whether in culture, tissue or freely moving animals, could apply to a vast array of questions.

But Rao questions whether such technology can be replicated in more complex animals or people.

In that post, I addressed the question of whether we should avoid animal protein in order to optimize an important health - related process known as methylation.

In this one, I address the question of whether we should restrict animal protein to optimize the methylation process.

The question of whether these marine trans fatty acids have health benefits — as do the natural trans fats found in the fat of ruminant animals — awaits further research.