All for Animals
WORDS:592
Is it right to take the life of an innocent animal? Animals have been burnt, crushed, sliced, electrocuted, tortured with drugs, poisoned with toxic chemicals, and tormented in psychological testing. They do all these test just to make money or find if a chemical is safe for humans. Is this right?
Animal testing or vivisection ( as commonly called) promises to cure ills though animal experimentation. If this is stopped, that will be the end of human cures. Dr. Werner Hartinger, MD, surgeon in west Germany, claims that medical science’s great advances could not have been discovered without experimenting on animals. The uninformed public usually agrees to this statement, simply because they rather see a animal die than a person.
The public usually don’t see what goes on behind close doors. That is because product testers do not want them to see the animals suffer and die, including dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, birds, rats, mice, pigs, birds, fish, reptiles, etc. Each of these animals has the capacity to experience pain, and they can also escape it. However, inside the laboratory there is no escape. To intentionally inflict suffering and eventual death on an animal is a crude practice, one that could result in a criminal convection if done in public under the state’s law. Yet because animal testing is done behind closed doors at the hands of scientists who promises cures in the future, the suffering continues.
As science became more advanced, the cruelty became more creative. How could scientist watch those animals be put through torture. A scientists, studying for head trauma strapped an animal in machinery to receive high impact blows to the head that left it with severe head damage. Another time, to examine severe burns to live tissue, pigs were restrained to prevent their escape and then burned alive with a flame thrower until the charred flesh could be removed from the live animals in large pieces. Yet another example, to demonstrate that the eye’s protein levels are not different in sight deprived monkeys compared to normal ones, animal experimenters sewed the monkeys’ eyelids shut.
The point of these horrible animals experiences are cruel. There are thousands of discoveries made without product testing. Some are: discovery of penicillin, development of x-rays, discovery of the relationship between cholesterol and heart disease, which is the number one cause of death in America. Advancements in the human medicine which are based on the human model are the only true reliable and responsible research methods.
“All animals are equal” (Orwell, 23) was a commandment featured in the allegory based off of the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm. An extreme corruption of power by the animals allows the commandment to later be altered to read “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”(PaGE). This dishonest adulteration of authority can also be seen in the novel Anthem.The novels, Animal Farm, and Anthem, despite the difference in their time frames, both have similar themes and concepts that are
“All Animals are Equal” “The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been witholden from them but by the hand of tyranny,” said by Bentham (“All Animals Are Equal”) We as a human race have always craved superiority over different groups as a way to claim power. During slavery, we thought it was acceptable to treat blacks as if they had no vital characteristics and no meaning to live. They were pets to their owners, like animals are to us now
hierarchy for decent reason. This leads to the issue of whether human beings are worth more than animals and animal suffering. While humans possess the moral capacity to understand moral thought, an issue rises with this. Does animal suffering, if we choose to assume that as moral agents human beings are obligated to include animal suffering in our choices such as Peter Singer speaks of in his essays on animal equality, become less important when used to progress science and perhaps human well-being?
Final Essay: Animal Rights The rights of animals have been a controversial issue for many years. This issue is significant because animals do not have the ability to speak and share their voice. Therefore, they are taken advantage of by human beings and not given proper rights as living creatures. Human beings eat animals on a daily basis without considering the suffering and turmoil that those animals were put through. I agree with Peter Singer’s argument that, “animals, at least those
Daniel Quinn uses Ishmael to talk about the environmental disasters that humans are facing, while Peter Singer talks about how humans have treated animals unfairly and have over used them. Essentially, both authors talk about how humans have hurt this world just in polar opposite directions. Similarities between Ishmael and the article “All Animals are Equal” are big concepts such as: humans are the reason for difficult times on Earth and its inhabitants are having, inequality, and overuse.
In his paper “All Animals Are Equal”, Philosopher Peter Singer argues for an egalitarian view on the concept treatment for animals. This paper will explore the implications of his argument and seek to counter an objection one may have to his view. His argument bases itself in the basic principle of equality. The argument is that the basic principle of equality states that the interest of all being must be taken into account and considered as equal to all other beings To defend his position Singer
A quote from George Orwell’s book Animal Farm states “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This quote shines a light on what Orwell was trying to explain in this novel. George Orwell who was a staunch anti-communist, took his beliefs and funneled them into his book Animal Farm. While this book may seem simple at first, it is actually a very complex book, it not only uses symbolism to tie in major figures of the Communist revolution in Russia, but it also has very important
Language is all that Seperates Animals from Humans For thousands of years humans have wrestled with the question of their "human" nature. Most often they have defined themselves in relation to the animal kingdom, yearning either to take on some of the superior attributes of other animals or to rise above their own animal nature by becoming angelic. And thus they define themselves as a special sort of unique creation. Our magnificent and intricate minds have given human kind the gift of specialized
The passage “All Animals Are Equal,” by Peter Singer is about how us as humans should consider animals’ equality as well as our own. Singer starts out by talking about many minority groups that have come out with the idea of their own liberation movements towards their equality. These minority groups consisted of African Americans, Spanish Americans, women, and people of gay orientation. Us humans never really understand how one group of people could give the another an injustice until most of the
Respect for All Natural Living Beings: An argument to Acknowledge All animal Rights in Society Throughout history, societies have been faced with many social issues affecting their citizens. Martin Luther King Jr, a civil rights leader for African Americans, was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement, a movement that fought to undo the injustices African Americans endure by American society in the 1960s. Martin expressed his disgust with the social inequality among citizens when saying “Injustice
"In "All Animals Are Equal," Singer argues for the equality of all animals, on the basis of an argument by analogy with various civil rights movements, on the part of human beings. How does this argument go exactly, and what is Singer's precise conclusion? Is his argument successful? Why or why not? If you think it is successful, raise a residual potentially damaging objection, and respond on Singer's behalf (i.e., as a proponent of the position). And if not, how far does the argument go and/or how
movies from Grease to American Graffiti to Cooley High, but few hold up as well in the present day as the cult classic Animal House. Walking around a college campus, one can still hear students quoting lines from the film, or see a poster of John Belushi chugging a bottle of Jack Daniels in someone’s living room, or even see students wearing the infamous “College” shirt. Animal House is such a staple of college life, even with it being over thirty years since its release. Being able to relate to
influence on others. There are several ways in which an individual or a business can be socially responsible that we have seen in our reading. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the pig, Napoleon, manipulated his workers to improve the farm in any way possible while still convincing them that he is a much better leader than their previous leader Mr. Jones. In All My Sons by Arthur Miller, the father tries to hide the truth and in doing so, causes the death of his own son. And finally in the movie “The Corporation”
Fate of the Animal Farm Animal Farm is a great example of mischief. This selection showed deceivement, lies, and trickery. In the beginning of this book all the animals from the pigs to cows to sheep were controlled by Mr. Jones. Mr Jones is a very corrupt leader in Animal Farm. “ His men were idle and dishonest, the fields were full of weeds, the buildings wanted roofing, the hedges were neglected, and the animals were unfed” (Orwell 38). Mr. Jones treated the animals with disrespect and did not
human and animal health has been the direct result of research using animals.” (California Biomedical Research Association) Every huge development in the creation of new vaccines and cures has only been feasible through the many experiments many experiments performed on animals. Animal testing involves a series of clinical trials that uses animal subjects to test and develop many different types of methods to treat and diagnose and treat diseases that affect both systems of humans and animals. Animals