ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a very brief introduction to animal welfare, followed by a thought experiment. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. Society has become more sensitive to talk of animal rights and animal welfare, and how morality might relate to whether people test medicine on animals. These thoughts have made people question the idea that humans are of special value simply by being part of the species homo sapiens. The thought experiment presents a case on human cannibalism. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about the problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.
