For Animal Rights
In this essay I will be discussing the cruel acts of animal torture
and testing. Animals have been tortured to death by substances such as
drugs, cosmetics, diseases, tobacco, alcohol, detergent and other
poisons. Do people have the right to do what ever they like to
perfectly healthy animals? Should scientists do tests on animals if no
new information is going to be gained? Cosmetic companies use animal
tests to protect themselves against possible lawsuits. If they were
sued for liability then they can back themselves up by saying that the
product was 'tested for safety'. How placing a piece of lipstick in
the eye of a rabbit to see if it is safe for the consumer doesn't
sound right to me. I'm sure that my eye would feel irritable. How does
this test prove that it is safe for the consumer? I don't believe that
anybody would be putting lipstick in their eyes.
Each year in the United States about 20-70 million animals - from
cats, dogs and primates to rabbits, rats and mice suffer and die just
because of research. Animals are locked in complete darkness, sending
them crazy, turning them into drug addicts, giving them diseases such
as aids and cancer, sending them blind or deaf, there has even been
cases of cats and dogs been stitched together, and many cases of mice,
rabbits, guinea pigs and even monkeys having cosmetics, detergents and
other household products rubbed into their shaven skin and having it
dripped into their eyes while been under no anaesthetic at all. Other
animals are force fed big quantities of toxic materials such as bleach
or soap just to find out the levels of toxicity. Some of the
manufactu...
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... on. Approximately 350,000 dairy cows are 'downers' each
year. Animals that are 'downers' are beaten and dragged by chains
still alive to the 'dead pile'. Another form of death is called
captive bold head stunning. This is when a pistol of some kind is
aimed at the animals head. A metal rod is shot into the brain, often
missing the point of unconsciousness and has to be repeated. Another
way of death is Electric head stunning, this is when an electric
stunner is used to give the animal a seizure. When the animal is
shocked, where it is often not unconscious and can still feel pain,
the animals throat is cut. Farming has become the number one threat to
our animals.
We must remember unseen they suffer, unheard they cry, in agony they
linger, in loneliness they die. You can make a difference, you can be
their voice.
2. There have been people who cared about animal rights in the past. In the 18th century, there were writers and poets that displayed their feelings on that topic in their works. One of them, Jeremy Bentham, one said,
Every year about 241,000 rabbits are tortured in United States laboratories to test for the effects that household products, such as cosmetics, dishwashing liquid, and drain cleaner will have on their eyes ("Rabbits in Laboratories | PETA.org." 1). Scientists will drip chemicals into the eyes of the animal to see how much irritation it will cause, a process known as the Draize eye irritancy test ("Rabbits in Laboratories | PETA.org." 1). The test is certainly not pain free; it often causes distress, such as redness, swelling, and sometimes blindness. After the rabbits are finished being toyed with, they are killed ("Rabbits in Laboratories | PETA.org." 1). The Draize eye irritancy test is just one of the thousands of examples of profuse animal testing that has been going on for centuries. Mice, rats, dogs, pigs, cats, fish, birds and primates are tested every day by human beings in an attempt to learn more about the functions of our own bodies ("Update: Animal Testing" 2).
Animal rights are the privileges for all animals to live freely from any harm. There were
In this society, it is under law for all people have the basic rights under the universal declaration of human rights. As stated, this only benefits humans, where humans rule the world. So where does the rights of animals come from? Many people do not understand animal rights and how we should treat them equally and why. Through animal research and experimentations, humans are getting benefit and gains in the obscene inhumane ways; the poor animals are suffering through pain and distress, even though they have moral status and rights.
animals. If they keep the animals, then the animal will be treated as a pet or
Man created our human rights of people and it is only man that uses this concept. The human race needs to have the obligation to set limits for animal rights. The development of rights for our animals should be an effective and a possible concept that can legally be looked at. We must set a guideline for legal limits to humans when it comes to animals and their rights. If not then there can be no way to prosecute legal issues that arise for those who overstep the limits. Animals are vulnerable, defenseless and are controlled by us people to enforce animal rights. For those that ignore the welfare of animals should need to be held responsible for breaking the laws of animal rights.
"The Case For Animal Rights" written by Tom Regan, promotes the equal treatment of humans and non-humans. I agree with Regan's view, as he suggests that humans and animals alike, share the experience of life, and thus share equal, inherent value.
Doesn’t it kill you to see a movie and see an animal get killed or just hurt in it? Good thing that’s all special effects. Back in the day, around 1966, movies didn’t always use special effects. Khartoum, a movie based on a holy war in the Sudan desert, directed by Basil Dearden and Eliot Elisofon, used horses a great deal, but did not use the special effects in order to not hurt the animals. Many horses died in the making of this movie, as well as others, even including a major hit, Ben-Hur. Today, there are many activist groups that fight for and about the unfair treatment and protection for animals in everyday life. The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is one of these groups. PETA was founded in 1980, and since then has been working on getting the point across to the public that animals “are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.” (PETA: Official Page). PETA also focuses on educating policymakers and the public about the abuse of animals and making it known that animals deserve the right to be treated with respect.
What is the difference between animal rights and animal welfare? Although animal rights and animal welfare have the same idea - to protect animals, they are very much different. Concisely, animal rights, it is not acceptable to use animals in anyway at all; animal welfare, animals can be used as long as it is legal and the animal doesn't suffer in anyway at all. It is important to know how to contradistinguish between the two because if you would like to support an animal activist group you should know what that particular group is for.
Mahatma Gandhi, arguably one of the most influential activists, once said “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated (18).” And if this is true than we are in some trouble. As stated before the AWA was created in order to prevent horrific cases of mistreatments of animals, including animals in laboratories. A story posted to the Des Moines Register, part of the USA Today network, describes a fur farm in Des Moines, Iowa where officials found the farm to be forcing its animals to live in sweltering heat and maggot-infested filth. Officials also found decomposing animal carcasses in the same cages as the live animals. With all of this evidence animal rights activists are calling for the
In the past two decades, the rapidly growing society has come up with new techniques and methods to grow food more efficiently. Today, a shocking 87 percent of the population owns products that are tested on animals or come from companies that promote animal cruelty. Every day in countries around the world, animals are fighting for their lives. They are enslaved, beaten, and kept in chains for entertainment; they are mutilated and stuck in small cages so that we can kill them and eat them; they are blinded, burned, and cut up alive for “science”; they are strangled and skinned alive so that humans around the world can wear fur coats and shoes.
The right to life, liberty and freedom, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to be free from slavery are just some of the basic human rights. Although animals’ rights aren’t completely alike, they do exist and are similar to some human rights. Some common misconceptions are that if we don’t use animals, we would have to use humans to test drugs and that hunting is necessary for controlling animal populations. Animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans.
Our case is that if we don’t test on animals then progress in scientific fields would be halted. As first speaker for the negative I will speak about the benefits of animal testing in general and then I’ll talk in detail about animal testing in medicine. My second speaker will talk about the opinions on testing and the food chain and my third speaker will summarise our points and rebut.
Animals have their own rights as do to humans and we should respect that and give them the same respect we give each other. Animals deserve to be given those same basic rights as humans. All humans are considered equal and ethical principles and legal statutes should protect the rights of animals to live according to their own nature and remain free from exploitation. This paper is going to argue that animals deserve to have the same rights as humans and therefore, we don’t have the right to kill or harm them in any way. The premises are the following: animals are living things thus they are valuable sentient beings, animals have feeling just like humans, and animals feel pain therefore animal suffering is wrong. 2 sources I will be using for my research are “The Fight for Animal Rights” by Jamie Aronson, an article that presents an argument in favour of animal rights. It also discusses the counter argument – opponents of animal rights argue that animals have less value than humans, and as a result, are undeserving of rights. Also I will be using “Animal Liberation” by Peter Singer. This book shows many aspects; that all animals are equal is the first argument or why the ethical principle on which human equality rests requires us to extend equal consideration to animals too.
It is the notion of our time that non-human animals exist for the advancement of the human species. In whatever field -- cookery, fashion, blood-sports -- it is held that we can only be concerned with animals as far as human interests exist. There may be some sympathy for those animals, as to limit practices which cause excruciating suffering, but those may only be limited if they are brought to public light, and if legislators receive enough pressure from the public to change.