... indicative to the service of humans. He also believed animals were aware of pleasure and pain, but did not have the ability to reason and lacked emotion. French philosopher, Rene Descartes believed that humans were only able to think. Therefore animals did not have thinking minds and should be treated as machines. He believed than an animal's range of action was ... ...

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... so many problems in our world; why does animal cruelty have to be one of them? The question on animal testing was posed as early as the 17th century. Rene Descartes", who you've probably all heard of before, believed that because animals can't reason like we can, why should they be able to suffer. I disagree, and so did Jeremy Bentham ... ...

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