Applying Utilitarianism

Question 1

Dissection?

Answer 1

Cutting open a dead body (often of an animal) to investigate its parts

Question 2

Vivisection?

Answer 2

Performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation or scientific research

Question 3

Xenotransplantation?

Answer 3

Using genetically altered animal organs bread for transplantation into other species ie human beings

Question 4

Animal use?

Answer 4

How humans use animals- to eat, sport, to work

Question 5

Animal protection?

Answer 5

Laws and protections to control animal experiments and ensured they are treated with dignity

Question 6

Animal welfare?

Answer 6

Work supporting the rights of animal to be free from abuse and looked after RSPCA

Question 7

Animal reform?

Answer 7

Work of people who try to change laws about animal experiments, use of animals in sport

Question 8

Animal liberation?

Answer 8

Groups which have used acts of terrorism to free animals from abuse

Question 9

Animal control?

Answer 9

Support the use of animals in extreme sports like fox hunting, animals are here for our pleasure

Question 10

Claudius Galen?

Answer 10

Greek physical who used dissection and vivisection to try and understand how different organs worked

Question 11

William Harvey?

Answer 11

16th century English physician who found out how blood circulates around the body by analysing a dissected pig

Question 12

Peter Singer?

Answer 12

Modern utilitarian philosopher who coined the term speciesim, to describe the discrimination of prioritising one species (our own) over others

Question 13

Tom Regan?

Answer 13

Another contemporary thinker who also agrees with singer and says animals should have the same rights as humans.

Question 14

Animal Aid?

Answer 14

A charity that promotes animal welfare and argues against the use of animals for medical research

Question 15

Understanding animal research?

Answer 15

A not for profit organisation that explains why animals are used in scientific and medical research

Question 16

Atomic bomb?

Answer 16

A bomb which derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy

Question 17

WMD?

Answer 17

Weapons of mass destruction, which can cause widespread destruction to human beings and their environment.

Question 18

Detterent?

Answer 18

A nuclear weapon which is kept as a threat to aggressors

Question 19

Deterrence theory?

Answer 19

The theory that possessing nuclear weapons will dissuade an enemy from iniaiting an attack

Question 20

CND?

Answer 20

Campaign for nuclear disarmament- a pressure group which try to persuade the government to dismantle their nuclear arsenals.

Question 21

Ministry of defence?

Answer 21

British government responsible for national security and for implementing the national defence policy

Question 22

Trident?

Answer 22

Name of Britains nuclear deterrent weapons, consists of 4 submarines each carrying 16 missiles and each missile has 8 nuclear warheads