RNS Quote of the Day: 07/27/07

I found another one from Singer, our notable quotable from yesterday. We’ll just finish out the week with him. 

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Peter Singer in Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd. edition, 1990.

I have no doubt that if he were born a few generations earlier, he would have supported the work of Dr. Mengele.