Quote by Emily Anthes

“We’ve always had strong moral responsibility, or we should have had, to other species,’ says Richard Twine, the British sociologist. ‘We just haven’t exercised…

— Emily Anthes

“… To many biologists, cloning is all sizzle and no substance, a high-tech spectacle that fails to address habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and the…

— Emily Anthes

“Take tail docking…in which the last several inches of a puppy’s tail are removed, usually without anesthesia, sometimes with extremely crude instruments such as…

— Emily Anthes

“Over the generations, we have bred and inbred our canine companions to the point of disease and deformity. One analysis of popular dog breeds…

— Emily Anthes

“The important thing is that we do not throw the genetically modified baby out with the bathwater. We spend so much time discussing the…

— Emily Anthes

“Linguists have long debated the links between language, culture, and cognition. The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself—the specific tongue that we…

— Emily Anthes

“As Rollin put it in his book The Frankenstein Syndrome, ‘It is simply false that all genetic engineering must harm animals. Unless one assumes…

— Emily Anthes

“Though the ostensible goal of engineering pain-free animals is to minimize other species’ discomfort, what it’s really doing is alleviating our own. if we…

— Emily Anthes

“For the vast majority of us who reside in the troubled middle, there are no easy answers to the ethical dilemmas that biotechnology can…

— Emily Anthes

“The troubled middle is…a place where it’s possible to truly love animals and still accept their occasional role as resources, objects, and tools. Those…

— Emily Anthes

“Cloning is reproduction—it’s not resurrection.”

— Emily Anthes

“The latest, greatest cyborg critters may come not from state-of-the-art labs, but the minds of curious kids and individual hobbyists. Though scientists will continue…

— Emily Anthes