... an important moral issue. As quoted 'How can anyone waste time on equality for animals, when so many humans are denied real equality?' However animal equality is easy to dismiss as 'there animals,' however Jeremy Bentham 'The founding father of Utilitarianism' said the question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But, can they suffer? Bentham goes on to explain that suffering has no boundaries, it has no barrier. Pain can be felt through every species from a new born baby to a horse as, if you slap a baby it will cry, however you may think if you slap a horse it will also be fine as its got tougher skin, however if you equaled the force of the babies slap to pain a horse would feel then it would feel pain. The view by some people is that humans know the consequence of pain and can understand mental ...

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