Professor Sophie Sills English 240 December 16‚ 2011 Should Animals be used for Research During the past ten years‚ a major controversy over the use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research has arisen. The debate about using animals for medical testing has been ongoing for years. The struggle is usually between animal rights activists and scientist. I believe that animal testing is imperative to the progression of medical cures‚ procedures and drugs. Scientists have been solving medical
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Factories should feed their animals normal diets‚ and not just corn because it is unhealthy and immoral. Those who oppose may say that the corn is cheaper and feeds ore‚ but taking other factors in account‚ it may not turn out to be all that cheap. Corn is not the most nutritious crop‚ and most of the animals in factory farms don’t eat corn in their normal diets‚ nevertheless factories continue to feed large amounts of corn to the animals. This drastic change in diets are not beneficial to the animals
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Should Animal Experimentation be justified? Animal experimentation is an issue that many think that just risen from nowhere‚ but actually it has a long brief history. It goes back to the earlier centuries where goats and pigs were dissected and when animal experimentation was used to learn more about the blood circulatory system and its processes first hand in the 1600s. Centuries later‚ the experimentations became a bit intensive and in-depth when French chemist‚ Louis Pasteur infected sheep
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ETHICS OF ANIMAL TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION ABSTRACT Animal experimentation arouses nice feeling in many folks‚ maybe a lot of particularly in Great Britain‚ and this has enlarged as a lot of subtle medical and non-medical animal experiments are demanded by trendy analysis. The Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876 is that the solely legal regulation of experiments in animals‚ and lots of its clauses are ambiguous. Therefore‚ in 1963 a committee of enquiry - the Littlewood Committee - was established.
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’Culture of cruelty’: 11 care home workers sentenced for shocking abuse of vulnerable residents exposed by Panorama probe 11 care workers admitted 38 charges of either neglect or ill-treatment of people with severe learning difficulties between them Six members of staff jailed for total of seven years and four months and five received suspended sentences at Bristol Crown Court today Wayne Rodgers‚ 32‚ was jailed for two years for abusing vulnerable patients Footage showed residents being slapped
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Circus Cruelty Over the years circuses have been considered one of the most entertaining places of all time‚ but what happens when the show ends and everybody goes home? On the outside circuses seem magical and full of fun. People would think that they are harmless‚ but in reality they’re filled with abuse‚ fear‚ and neglect. While most famous shows claim that the animals are well kept and treated fairly‚ many sources seem to believe otherwise. Most of the performing animals belong in the
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Theatre of cruelty Introduction The theatre of cruelty is a form of theatre invented by Antonin Artaud‚ a very well known theatre practitioner. The theatre of cruelty is defined as‚ by the dictionary‚ “a type of theatre advocated by Antonin Artaud in Le Théâtre et son double that seeks to communicate to its audience a sense of pain‚ suffering‚ and evil‚ using gesture‚ movement‚ sound‚ and symbolism rather than language”. To break it down even further‚ the theatre of cruelty is one of many
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multinational agrochemical company‚ Monsanto‚ introduced the synthetic hormone rBGH designed to increase milk production by 11-16%. Because Monsanto declared that their product involves zero antibiotics and proudly claimed that it is safe for both animal and human health‚ rBGH was extensively used by 17% of American dairy farmers and was approved by the FDA without hesitance. However‚ researches soon revealed that this artificial hormone is composed of antibiotics and‚ as it circulates through cows’
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The Day the Voices Stopped By Ken Steele The voices arrived without warning on an October night in 1962‚ when I was fourteen years old. Kill yourself....Set yourself afire. I stirred‚ thinking I was having a nightmare‚ but I wasn’t asleep; and the voices–low and insistent‚ taunting and ridiculing–continued to speak to me from the radio. Hang yourself. The world will be better off. You’re no good‚ no good at all. Terrified‚ I turned off the radio‚ got out of bed‚ and crept down the hallway
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under the age of 18 commits the offense of cruelty to children in the first degree when such person willfully deprives the child of necessary sustenance to the extent that the child’s health or well-being is jeopardized. (b) Any person commits the offense of cruelty to children in the first degree when such person maliciously causes a child under the age of 18 cruel or excessive physical or mental pain. (c) Any person commits the offense of cruelty to children in the second degree when such
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