Research Paper On Animal Rights

Animals Have Rights Too Growing up with a single grandparent I was never able to have a pet of my own. This choice that my grandmother made for our house hold was hard but something I have dealt with my whole life. Animals in general hold a special place in my heart because interacting with another species is something very amazing. Learning their way of life and how they adapt has been an interest of mine for some time. With research and constantly watching Animal Planet Network the show “Animal Cops” really caught my attention and also disturbed me at the same time. “Animal Cops follows the men and women who fight animal cruelty.” (animalplanet.com) they go around in major cities such as Detroit, Michigan to protect, help, and enforce
This theory is derived from the undisputed fact that human beings are capable of feeling pain, because the body has a nervous system. When nerve cells are destroyed by say, a sharp blade, the brain receives messages that trigger in the consciousness as pain- the more cells that are destroyed at once, the sharper and more unbearable the pain. The nervous systems in most animals, especially mammals, are almost identical to those in human beings, suggesting that animals can feel pain the same way people do. Therefore, if people have no right to cause pain in other people, they have no right to cause pain in animals. Also, there is scientific evidence stating that most animals have emotions, are susceptible to mental stress, and are affected by some of the same things that affect humans emotionally. In a study conducted by Johns Hopkins University in 1997, children of almost every species of mammal down to the smallest rodent suffered and died soon after being untimely separated from their mothers- despite adequate care from scientists. Animals confined in cages for very long periods of time, such as those on farms and those in scientific laboratories, show signs of insanity and neuroticism, often throwing themselves against the walls or tearing flesh from their own bodies in crazed, desperate fits. The obvious signs that animals are like humans in their ability to feel pain and joy, demand that they be granted their inalienable rights against murder, torture, and imprisonment. The only things that stand in the way for animal rights are money and human convenience. Most people do not consider animals worthy of any rights because they are not human, and humans are somehow better, though that is no excuse for cruel treatment. It used to be considered acceptable to enslave Africans because they were not white, and the German people