Tom Regan Animal Rights

Animals contain traits that humans acquire into their everyday lives, yet humans find different approaches to make these animals suffer on a day to day basis. Tom Regan, author of Animal Rights, Human Wrongs, describes various situations in which humans hunt animals for pleasure while Stephen Rose, author of Proud to be a Speciesist, illustrates why a speciesist like himself would use animals for research. Tom Regan’s describes his main point as to why humans would want to slaughter such precious animals to have them for resources. On the opposing side of the argument, Stephen Rose’s argument states that animal cruelty cannot be considered wrong because “Many human diseases and disorders are found in other mammals…” (Rose 553). Although Regan
Rose does not hesitate to start claiming why he proves his point as being a speciesist, but he does make it more clear when he moves into the body paragraphs when he includes the statement, “There is no way for instance that the biochemical causes of the lethal disease diabetes, or its treatment with insulin, could have been discovered, without experiments on mammals. And we can’t use tissue cultures, or bacteria, or plants, to develop and test the treatments needed to alleviate epilepsy, Parkinsonism or manic depression.” (Rose 554). Rose makes a good point to his readers by claiming that the experiments on mammals are for the best of things to develop treatments for multiple kinds of diseases while at the same time he backs up his claim by telling the reader how bacteria and plants could not help in the treatment experiments. While Rose makes theses claims of only being able to use mammals to find treatments for diseases, Regan informs the audience of how calves are used to satisfy human's hunger for pale veal and the sacrifices that calf has to go through to be good enough for humans. Regan states the following as opposed to what a male calf has been made to live through just to become good enough for pale veal: “So, the calf is kept permanently indoors, in a stall too narrow for it to turn around (recommended size: 1 foot 10 inches wide by 4 feet 6 inches long), frequently tethered to confine it even further…” (Regan 22). Regan speaks of this information to keep the reader focused on exactly how the male calf is made just right for pale veal as well as giving the reader more information why men would make a creature suffer in such ways: “So that humans might satisfy their preference for pale veal.” (Regan 22). While Rose and Regan make excellent points in both of their papers, both have a sense of being right. A