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Timeline of wild-animal suffering

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| 1995 || || Publication || [[wikipedia:David Pearce (philosopher)|David Pearce]] || David Pearce publishes his transhumanist manifesto ''The Hedonistic Imperative'', which argues that biotechnology can and should be used to eliminate the experience of suffering.<ref>{{cite book|author=Pearce, David|title=The Hedonistic Imperative|url=https://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527232626/https://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm|archivedate=2018-05-27|deadurl=no|date=1995|publisher=hedweb.com}}</ref> It includes a section on wild-animal suffering.
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| 1995 || || Publication || [[wikipedia:Richard Dawkins|Richard Dawkins]] || Richard Dawkins's book ''River Out of Eden'' includes a section on "[[wikipedia:God's utility function|God's utility function]]", arguing that natural selection is amoral and indifferent to suffering. Dawkins discusses wild-animal suffering, claiming that it is an inevitable consequence of evolutionary pressures.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dawkins |first1=Richard |title=River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life |date=1995 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=0465016065 |chapter=God's Utility Function |quote=The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.}}</ref>
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| 1995 || (summer) || Publication || Andrew Luke || Andrew Luke's article "And the Hyenas Laughed No More?" is published in ''The Vegan'', in which the author argues for the incompatibility between veganism and environmentalism, and describes the creation of a vegan utopia—a world where no harms befall any sentient beings.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Luke |first=Andrew |date=1995 |title=And the Hyenas Laughed No More?|url=https://issuu.com/vegan_society/docs/the-vegan-summer-1995/6|magazine=The Vegan|location= |publisher=The Vegan Society|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref>
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