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  • This house believes that vegan activists should focus their campaign on vegan accessibility instead of the morality of veganism

    10th UOW-M-KDU Interschool Debates (KIDs) BP 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-07-29

  • This house supports a uniform standard for animal welfare, regardless of the animal's perceived utility (e.g. how cute they are, how useful they are in service to humans, etc.)

    WSDC 2021 · Open Octos · 2021-07-28

  • This house, as the animal rights movement, Would support animal welfare reform (eg 'humane', cage-free, grass fed animal products) campaigns over arguing that consuming animals is inherently immoral.

    Helsinki Open 2021 · Round 5 · 2021-07-17

  • This house, as the animal rights movement, Would campaign solely focusing on large-scale atrocities (e.g. battery farming, animal testing) as opposed to individual behaviours (e.g. eating meat, wearing leather)

    UET IV · Novice Final · 2021-05-29

  • This house believes that animal rights groups should prioritise their campaigns on farmed animals being treated well and killed without excessive pain and suffering, rather than discouraging the use of animal-based products.

    Oldham International League · 4 · 2021-04-30

  • This house opposes THE PRIORITIZATION OF HUMAN COMFORT OVER ANIMAL WELFARE (E.G. INDUSTRIAL MEAT AND DAIRY CONSUMPTION, LEATHER, ANIMAL TESTING FOR NON-MEDICALLY ESSENTIAL PURPOSES, ETC).

    Hanoi Debate Open · 3 · 2021-04-17

  • This house would heavily tax high intensity animal farming

    Infoslide

    Intensive animal farming, also know as factory farming, is an approach to animal husbandry that is highly efficient. It typically involves the use of high stocking densities, large scales of production, wide use of antibiotics and growth hormones, and high levels of automation while largely disregarding animal welfare.

    St Andrews Debate Open · 3 · 2021-04-17

  • This house believes that animal rights activists should prioritize legislative reforms (e.g. banning factory farming) over changing people’s attitudes toward animals (e.g. veganism or vegetarianism)

    UM Debate Competition 2021 · 1 · 2021-04-16

  • This house, as Buzz Lightyear, would create a secret organisation to seek out and liberate other sentient toys

    Infoslide

    Buzz Lightyear is a spaceman action figure toy originally belonging to Andy in the Toy Story franchise. Buzz can talk and has the ability to feel emotions like a regular human. He has wings so he can fly and he can fire laser beams. In the Toy Story Franchise, toys are owned by normal humans (like in real life) but whenever humans leave the room, they come alive and are sentient. Examples include Woody, Mr Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Bo Peep, Sarge and Rex.

    Pop Posting Open · 0 · 2021-04-10

  • This house, as the individual, would choose to install the device despite the consequences for the cat

    Infoslide

    Humans have invented a device that converts cat language into our language and vice versa. The translation is 100% accurate and conveys every emotion and nuance in their tone of voice. this has allowed us to communicate with cats more better and form much closer bonds with them. this device is a one-time solution meaning it is permanent. It has shortened the life-spans of the cats by a margin and made them more susceptible to diseases. Cats with this device also have consent so they have similar rights to human rights as they can communicate with us on an equal level now. You have a kitten. You adopted it when it was born. You were the first individual it saw and it looks at you as a parental figure. It has been recently diagnosed with a terminal disease limiting its lifespan. You are distressed about this and want to make the kittens remaining life an enjoyable experience for it. You feel that getting the device for your cat might potentially help you make its remaining life better for both of you however this means that the life of this cat will be shortened even further beyond its terminal disease. With this in your mind you are tasked with this decision.

    CAMPSDA Debating Championship · Open Final · 2021-04-09

  • This house as person X would pull the lever

    Infoslide

    A Zookeeper forgot to close the gates to Osaka Zoo and 40-50 animals have escaped to the nearby train station. Mary searches for them on track A while the animals are on track B. All of a sudden a highspeed Shinkansen (train) heading to track A emerges at 320 km/h. Person X spots a nearby lever and knows for certain pulling the lever would result in the Shinkansen going through track B instead of track A. The Shinkansen passing through either track would mean that no one or no animal would be able to escape due to the high velocity of the train and there are no alternative methods to divert or stop the train (including alerting the zookeeper or the animals).

    Tenby Debate Open 2021 · 1 · 2021-03-26