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  • This house, as Charizard, would choose to leave.

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    You are Charizard, a Fire Pokemon stronger than the vast majority of other Pokemon in your region. Your current trainer, Ash Ketchum, treats you well, but you have never enjoyed battling or training. As of late, you have been considering leaving Ash to roam free in the wilderness. However, you are apprehensive about this choice: the overwhelming norm for Pokemon is to live alongside a Trainer.

    Live Laugh Love Debate Competition · Junior Finals · 2023-01-01

  • B: That western liberal democracies should allow the experimentation and creation of animal-human hybrids

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    B: Japan has lifted a ban on the creation of animal-human hybrids by allowing scientists to conduct stem-cell experiments to grow human organs inside animals. China has also been experimenting with the transplant of human brain cells into animal subjects to achieve advanced cognition.

    Campbelltown Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2022 · ESL Grand Final · 2022-11-23

  • C: That the environmentalist movement should include a just transition away from the animal agriculture industry in its messaging

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    C: "Just transition" rhetoric refers to economic transitions away from emissions-intense industries that attempt to account for social justice, for example by providing guaranteed jobs for workers who lose their jobs due to decarbonisation. Currently, a just transition is conceived as a transition away from fossil fuels extraction and combustion.

    Campbelltown Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2022 · Open Quarterfinals · 2022-11-23

  • This House prefers a world where livestock are sentient but genetically engineered to want to be eaten

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    World Schools Debate Open 2022 · High School Semifinals · 2022-07-30

  • This House believes that the Hong Kong government should ban and crack down on the sale of endangered animal parts

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    In Asia, endangered animal parts such as rhino horn, bear bile, and shark fins are highly in demand and consumed for medicinal or cultural reasons. Many of these parts pass through Hong Kong, either for domestic consumption or for transport to the Chinese and Japanese markets. Some of this is legal, for example shark fin soup, while the government simply turns a blind eye to the trafficking of other goods.

    World Schools Debate Open 2022 · National Teams Semifinals · 2022-07-30

  • This house would extend the rights of personhood to certain ‘higher’ animals (e.g., elephants, dolphins, chimpanzees)

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    Rights of personhood include the right to live, the right to be free from confinement or slavery, and the ability to be free from unethical treatment such as scientific experiments.

    Asia Schools Open BP 2022 · 2 · 2022-07-02

  • This house, as an animal rights movement, W campaign solely focusing on large-scale atrocities (e.g. animal testing, battery farming) instead of individual behaviours (e.g. eating meat, wearing leather)

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    N/A

    Utrecht Open 2022 · 4 · 2022-05-28

  • This house believes that the Predators of Farthing Wood should continue to follow 'The Code' with regards to the Prey of Farthing Wood at Blue Wolf National Park

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    Farthing Wood was a forest in the South West of England. It has recently been turned into a housing estate. All of the animals who previously lived there decided to move to Blue Wolf National Park as their new home. For safety on this journey, they all decided upon 'The Code'. 'The Code' dictates that none of the predator animals (foxes, badgers, weasels, etc.) are to eat any of the prey animals (mice, rabbits, pheasants etc.) in the group until they reach Blue Wolf. After months of travelling together and peril-filled stories, they reach Blue Wolf and are homed safely with the animals who already live in the park.

    Severn Cup 2022 · Gold Final · 2022-03-26

  • This house would require companies to place images of animals suffering on all products and food whose production harmed or killed animals.

    KK-Cup 2022 · Open Semis · 2022-02-26

  • This house would ban selling dogs and cats at pet stores.

    Asian Bridge 2022 · 3 · 2022-02-05

  • This house Opposes the commercialization of cloning

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    Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical or virtually identical DNA. In the US, companies currently offer pet cloning as a commercial service. This technology is improving.

    Asia Schools Open - Spring 2022 · U-16 Finals · 2022-01-14

  • This house prefers a world where no one consumes meat

    Infoslide

    Lying flat denotes a philosophy in contemporary Chinese social discourse that calls upon individuals to accept the vicissitudes of life, resign them from seeking to agitate or push for a better life, and to take life as it comes

    Windsor Juniors Debating Competition 2022 · 3 · 2022-01-09

  • This house believes that, rather than protecting endangered species the animal rights movement should prioritize maximizing the total welfare of the animal population

    SSE Riga Practice Tournament · 2 · 2022-01-01

  • As vegans this house would focus on advocating for ethical animal farming as opposed to radical lifestyle conversion

    Indonesian Varsity English Debate 2022 · 2 · 2021-12-09