After the introduction, Foer questions the ethics behind the disagreement to canine consumption by bringing up humanity’s long standing history of devouring dogs. The two main…
Kustritz, MV. (2012). Effects of surgical sterilization on canine and feline health and on society. Reproduction in Domestic Animals. Retrieved from http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rootk001/icar%202012.pdf…
This paper focuses on the pet store industry, and whether or not it is ethical to be purchasing puppies from pet stores that most likely came from puppy mills. Throughout the essay, one can expect a history of how puppy mills became popular as well as gaining an understanding of the pet industry market. Moving forward, the paper will describe the cruel, inhumane acts discovered in puppy mills and provide different viewpoints on the situation. After stating the viewpoints, I will propose my own opinion on this much-heated issue as to how I think we can combat animal euthanasia and overpopulation.…
Most essays today discuss problems concerning people, but this one is about animals, specifically dogs in shelters. In Animal Shelter Euthanasia, authored by Samantha Stoltenburg, Stoltenburg addresses the wrong of euthanizing dogs because of overcrowding and them being unadoptable. She calls out animal shelters and the community for not doing enough to help save the poor animals' lives. Throughout her essay body, she has stationed propositions that she feels will both help dogs find welcoming homes and benefit the community.…
What is fetus removal? Fetus removal is the executing of an unborn kid utilizing medicinal medications and strategies (Kreider, A. individual correspondence, March 24, 2011). Premature births are permitted at a sure phase of pregnancy. Fetus removal is both intrinsically and ethically wrong and ought to be unlawful in all cases aside from two. One being the lady was assaulted (pregnancy was the consequence of the assault), and the other reason would be if the mother's life would be in risk because of the pregnancy. Fetus removal is murder at any stage and is a demonstration against the U.S. Constitution. Ladies have the privilege to pick regardless of whether they need to have a kid. Today, there are individuals that as a consequence of an…
Jeremy Rifkin 's article, “A Change of Heart About Animals” argues that animals are more like humans than we imagine and as a result should be treated with the care that they deserve. Rifkin develops and supports his argument using facts about the animals and these facts end up touching hearts. In order for Rifkin to get his point across he uses a smart technique by using pathos and plays with the emotions of his audience. Rifkin loves animals and his passion and love evokes emotions that the audience can feel. Animals can feel and have emotions similar to ours. in agreement with Rifkin, I argue that it is wrong and inhumane to kill or abuse animals because they feel, they deserve to have space and should be valued as much as humans are It is wrong no animal should be killed due to abuse or testing, it is wrong and inhumane.…
A new ethical discussion is emerging in the oncology world due to overwhelming advances in fertility preservation in all age groups. The journal article “The Ethics of Fertility Preservation for Paediatric Cancer Patients: From Offer to Rebuttable Presumption” addresses the pressing need to discuss the ethics of failing to preserve fertility as this current practice may no longer be considered ethically appropriate for populations for whom established techniques are available. The current standard practice involves merely offering the option of fertility preservation procedures to children and young adults with cancer. Previous ethical discussions of fertility preservation have focused on the question of whether it is appropriate to perform fertility preservation procedures for a particular patient. The question at the heart of this article suggests the new discussion needs to address the question, “is failing to proceed with fertility preservation ethically justifiable?’” (McDougall 2015). The article gives some…
An article by American Humane (2016)…
The owner of the cat in The Last Meow “had studied enough psychology to suspect that her feelings for Lady were party misplaced mothering instincts.” Owners feel a connection to their pets that can be portrayed as a friendship or as a parent-child relationship, which is why they want to keep their pets as healthy as possible, because they don’t want to lose someone important to them. Although pets are considered family members to most people, “The rights we grant animals are, first and foremost, a function of empathy…[v]eterinarians like to talk about a pet’s quality of life, but no one really knows what they mean…[d]o they also feel enough pleasure—enough joy in the sheer fact of existence—to make surviving worthwhile?” These owners are putting their pets through all these treatments when these animals could be absolutely miserable. Along with that, veterinarian hospitals have “donor animals” which are simply there to donate organs to other animals. It’d almost be more humane to put them down when they have to be seriously treated since they have no say or consent in the matter. When malpractice lawsuits started coming into play, courts genuinely had to consider whether animals should be treated with these human rights in court, even though pets had no consent to what was done to them in the first place. To make it even more extreme, “[t]he…
“Care Ethics and Animal Welfare” is an article written by Daniel Engster from the Journal of Social Philosophy, published by Wiley Periodicals in 2016. Daniel Engster received his PhD from the University of Chicago and is a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Texas in San Antonio.…
Modifications to companion animals is both a very popular and very controversial topic in the animal owner and animal lover community. Animal modification, or ‘utility surgeries’ (Dol, 1999), are defined as a type of “physical interference that may take place with the purpose of adapting the animal to the owner’s wishes” (Dol, 1999). In many regions across the world, pet owners and activists are working towards laws that prevent these procedures from being performed. Some critics claim that certain modifications, like ear cropping (a surgical method where a portion of a dog’s ear is cut off), are in favor of the animal’s health and well-being, while others disagree with this belief. Those who are against the tempering of animals by ear cropping,…
2. The veterinary schools should make some changes. Testing pets has a high percentage against people's emotions. People with dogs have lower blood pressure than people without pets; therefore with dogs, get tested on, their owners will have health problems. In addition to the animals, mutilated in dissection, crude university biology demonstration torment and kill millions of live mice, rabbits, rats, turtles, and other animals. Veterinarian universities smash turtles on the head with hammers and have holes drilled into their shells so that their heart can be viewed and manipulated. Frogs’ brains are destroyed when pins are stuck through their skulls so that students can cut them open and stimulate their exposed muscle with electricity. Mice,…
Spending excessive amounts of money on our pets morally wrong. “Were looking at spending a thousand dollars for the next 24 hours and between 3 and 4 thousand in the next week…The total cost would be $15,000 dollars”( Burkhard, Part 1, Paragraph 5). The total cost of the procedure is more than 50 percent of the average American salary. That 15 thousand dollars could be used to buy the necessities for a small family, spending this much on a pet is just irresponsible considering the average life span of a dog is about 10-13 years and the time it would take to pay back this debt would more than likely outlive the pet.…
Dog cloning offered to the general public has two faces according to with Rob Stein in his article “Cloning Your Dog, For A Mere $100.000” that was published by NPR News the last year. The material shows the both sides of the problem using as reference a particular case of a dog cloned by an American couple and declarations of a bioethicist of Case Western Reserve University, so these provide strong points to each part. Thus, for the dogs’ owners side, the article expose feelings and sentimental experiences lived by the couple Dupont, which show a spiritual wellbeing developed because of a special vinculum between the pet and them. The most relevant thing written about the Duponts is that they think that all the “sacrifices” that involves the…
“Not only is a no-kill shelter important, but providing low-cost solutions to spay/neuter pets. I talk with numerous owners who are grateful to hear of the spay/neuter clinics organized by Caldwell Humane Society and Angels for Animals which make being a responsible owner affordable,” states Wilcox in an email interview. “Animals should be born into homes of owners that have a plan for the rest of their life. There are many different reasons expressed by owners for allowing their animal to have babies. Many are unaware that spaying or neutering their pet is something that can be achieved with little effort and money. As the Animal Control numbers indicate, there are more animals born than can be adopted by responsible owners,” she explains. Spaying and neutering is an ideal resolution in terms of animal overpopulation in our county and, ultimately, will improve Caldwell County in more ways than one. Wilcox highlights some of these benefits. “Our children need to learn that life isn't to be thrown away,” she declares. “Pets need to be planned for realistically.” We want the future leaders of this county to not only grasp and accept this concept, but practice it and apply it to life. The respect for human life is exceedingly essential, so why should…