Animal Testing Con or Pro March 07, 2013
Ambar Jaramillo
Professor A. Quispe
PSY-101-023
March 07, 2013
Animal Testing Con or Pro Do you ever think about if you are against or in favor of animal research? Animal experimentation is disputed because some people are favor and some are against. Animal research is used to discover those diseases that are without cure and to give the answers to the scientific community. Additionally, the animal experiments begin in ancient Rome and Greece. In the United States all pharmaceutical companies need first to experiment with the animals before humans. Nevertheless, without animal experimentation many of the most important advances in modern medicine would never have occurred. These experiments are important because scientists need to make sure that medicines are as safe and as good as possible before doctors give them to people and to discover more about how the medication works on human bodies. In the article “Animal Testing Is Cruel and Immoral Regardless of the Benefits Associated With It,” by George Wright and Steve Hoagland, the authors, argue that the use of animals for medical experiments is an immoral practice. The authors describe why people do not ask if the human species is more deserving of under going medical experiments than the animals. Also, in the article by Peter Singer, he said that if we share with them a capacity to suffer, this means that animals like people have interests. Like racism or sexists who believe that those who belong to their race or sex are superior, we are doing the same to the animals. But, there is no difference because animals also can feel. Why can only animals suffer? Wright and Hoagland demonstrate, that the human take advantage to govern the animals like capturing them and holding them in tiny cages. The authors give examples, about the last incident in 1983 at the University of Pennsylvania in which 150 baboons suffered brain damage. No doubt, there are a lot of cruelty of animals, but not just for the the
Professor A. Quispe
PSY-101-023
March 07, 2013
Animal Testing Con or Pro Do you ever think about if you are against or in favor of animal research? Animal experimentation is disputed because some people are favor and some are against. Animal research is used to discover those diseases that are without cure and to give the answers to the scientific community. Additionally, the animal experiments begin in ancient Rome and Greece. In the United States all pharmaceutical companies need first to experiment with the animals before humans. Nevertheless, without animal experimentation many of the most important advances in modern medicine would never have occurred. These experiments are important because scientists need to make sure that medicines are as safe and as good as possible before doctors give them to people and to discover more about how the medication works on human bodies. In the article “Animal Testing Is Cruel and Immoral Regardless of the Benefits Associated With It,” by George Wright and Steve Hoagland, the authors, argue that the use of animals for medical experiments is an immoral practice. The authors describe why people do not ask if the human species is more deserving of under going medical experiments than the animals. Also, in the article by Peter Singer, he said that if we share with them a capacity to suffer, this means that animals like people have interests. Like racism or sexists who believe that those who belong to their race or sex are superior, we are doing the same to the animals. But, there is no difference because animals also can feel. Why can only animals suffer? Wright and Hoagland demonstrate, that the human take advantage to govern the animals like capturing them and holding them in tiny cages. The authors give examples, about the last incident in 1983 at the University of Pennsylvania in which 150 baboons suffered brain damage. No doubt, there are a lot of cruelty of animals, but not just for the the
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