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  • This house believes that animal rights activists should prioritize campaigning for improving conditions for farmed animals rather than eliminating animal products.

    HPDU Shikoku Kyushu Open 2024 · R4 · 2024-03-09

  • This house regrets the growing trend of promoting Veganism.

    Infoslide

    <p><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Promoting veganism involves encouraging and advocating for a lifestyle that excludes the use of animal products for food, clothing, and other purposes. Vegans choose not to eat or use anything that comes from animals. This means not eating meat, dairy products, or eggs.</span><br></p>

    Asia Schools Open - Asian 3v3 Debate (Winter Edition) 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-01-20

  • This house would take the sponsorship.

    Infoslide

    You are a social media influencer with a platform based on following a vegan lifestyle. You have previously been offered small corporate sponsorships from companies selling meat alternatives. Recently, the largest meat producer in your country has brought to market a lab-grown meat product that does not require the use of animals at any stage in its development. This company offers you a larger sponsorship to promote their product as a cruelty-free alternative to meat. This house would take the sponsorship.

    Shivaji Bhonsle English Parliamentary Debate 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-01-20

  • Kevin is a man in his fourties of median income with a stable job, who lives in a liberal democracy with his loving wife and a child. Miso is Kevin's dog, who is young and healthy. This house would rather be Miso than Kevin.

    Anglo Blend 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-01-20

  • This house, as the chef, would publicly reveal the existence of the raccoon.

    Infoslide

    Recently, you have become a moderately publicly successful French chef, but your real cooking skill is secretly attributable to a raccoon with human-level intelligence (and superhuman-level cooking skill) that directs your movements from underneath your chef’s hat.

    NA Spar Pre-WUDC 2023 · Grand Finals · 2023-12-16

  • This house, as a museum, would display Helena.

    Infoslide

    Helena is an art piece by Evaristti; it features 5 alive goldfish in 5 working blenders. Viewers of this art piece would be able to press the button and blend the fish.

    Queen's Holiday Open 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-12-01

  • This house would clone a beloved pet that has passed away

    Infoslide

    Although expensive, it is possible to clone a pet. By injecting the pet's DNA into donor eggs and having a surrogate animal carry the fetus, a healthy, perfect replica of the animal can be born.

    Junior Fall HST 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-12-01

  • Gold finals: This house believes that there is no significant moral difference between the life of a human and the life of a dog

    Eton Schools 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-10-03

  • This house would legalize the licensed hunting of endangered animals

    Infoslide

    Hunting licenses are paid permits granted by the government that allow for the selective and regulated hunting of wild animals. There are annual limits placed on how many licenses are granted and how many animals a licensee may hunt.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-09-29

  • This house, as a vegan would attempt to join COCK.

    Infoslide

    "In the year 2043, animals of all species have collectivised (Collective of Cross-species Kombatants - COCK) and voted to rise up against the human race, in order to avenge centuries of murder and oppression by mirroring the treatment they received at the hands of humans”

    Zadek Debate Open 2022; Go Green! 🕺🏽🎉🥂. · Grand Finals · 2023-09-22

  • This house believes that sustained global economic growth is preferable to economic stagnation for the interests of nonhuman animals.

    UCLA Intervarsity Debating Champsionships 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-09-16

  • This house would democratize zoos.

    Infoslide

    Most zoos have boards of directors, which are responsible for overseeing the overall management and operations of the zoo. For the purpose of this debate, “democratizing a zoo” means making all of its board members fiduciaries for the animals. A fiduciary is someone who is legally obligated to act - in their official capacity - exclusively in the best interests of another entity. Depending on the sizes of the zoo and its board of directors, an individual fiduciary may represent just one species (e.g., the zoo’s lions) or a group of species (e.g., the zoo’s mammals).

    Queen's Summer Highschool Open 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-08-11

  • 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)

    3UDU Op3n 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-08-07

  • This house believes that patent rights should include de-extinct species

    Infoslide

    De-extinct species are once-extinct creatures that have been brought back to life by scientists using their DNA. De-extinction may be done accurately and in hybrid, where the species isn't exactly as it was before in terms of genetic and physical make-up but still serves the same function as its extinct species counterparts.

    Pangasinan Science Debate Open 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-07-06