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News: October/November 2002

Pussycats “Not Moral Agents” Shock • Industry Recruits Philosophical Engineers • McGill Says No to Ayn Rand Chair • Warnock okays human cloning “if safe”

Cats & Cruelty

Rev. Prof. Andrew Linzey, research fellow in Theology & Animals at Oxford and one of eight experts called to give evidence at British parliamentary hearings on the future of hunting with hounds, was challenged over his moral right to own cats. Following the Prof’s denouncement of the cruelty involved in hunting as ‘morally indefensible’, Lembit Opik M.P.

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