ear Editor‚ In “A Change of Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin‚ he says that “Animals are more like us than we could imagine” and I think I’m kind of on this middle plane where I can see both sides of the argument. Cause while I do realize that animals are living things and how they have all the components of one‚ I still believe it is ok to farm and use them for our needs. I say that in a good and humane way‚ as to make sure the animals are brought up in the right way. Now to get this out
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Imagine not being able to lay down‚ turn around‚ or even move. Imagine hard wires digging into the skin that covers legs‚ stomachs‚ and backs. That is what elephants experience almost daily in circuses and zoos. In the wild‚ elephants can walk up to thirty miles a day. In circuses‚ elephants spend almost twenty-three hours every day chained up. Many elephants experience great hardships. One cannot imagine being taken away from their mother at a tender‚ young age. However‚ almost all infantile elephants
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In this world today there are many big issues with how people treat animals. Animal equality is a very important topic because many people don’t understand‚ and abuse animals on the daily. Animals all over the world are abandoned and mistreated‚ not only that they are abandoned and left for dead. Humans don’t comprehend the fact that animals have feelings to and we should treat them with the same amount of affection we do with humans. In the article “Dogfighting” by the big animal website PETA
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Would you consider a cow being a model? Animal testing can be harmful and helpful. Animal testing can be helpful because it helps us learn what is safe for us. It shows what could harm us or help somebody with a disease. Even though there might be a small percentage of it working‚ it could still treat a person’s disease or even cure it. Animal testing can hurt the animal and even kill it. Because‚ of new technology we are able to have more accurate results than animal testing. Because‚ studies have
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Animal testing is a very disagreeable process that should not be allowed. Animals should be treated with the same respect as humans. Animals have feelings and organs and bodies just like us. They feel every bit of pain they endure. Why should these innocent animals be tested its unethical‚ wasteful‚ and they have rights just like humans. Animals testing is unethical because the pain and suffering that they are subjected to is not worth any possible benefits to humans. Scientists inject animals
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Some may think that animal testing is something that can help with finding cures for bad diseases. But the truth is that animal testing is useless and harmful to animals. It is bad because so many animals get hurt during the process. Also animals get murdered and suffer after the testing even if it works. According to Animal Testing 101 100 million animals die each year from animal testing. Finally the animals never return to their original habitat. These are all reasons on how animal testing is
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Animal experimentation is cruel and leads to the needless suffering and death of millions of animals. Public support for animal testing has been in steady decline since the 1950s. In 1949‚ the public support percentage was over 90 percent but in 2013 it declined to 57 percent (Ericson). According to Procon.org 95 percent of animals are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act. Also‚ Procon.org says 94 percent of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human trials. An estimated 26 million animals are
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There are a variety of different views on how animals should be treated and what rights they deserve if any. Some align themselves with the German philosopher Immanuel Kant‚ whose philosophy in regards to animals derives from a very human centric point of view. Kant argues that because non-human animals aren’t rational or self-conscious beings‚ they aren’t ends-in-themselves and as such don’t need to have rights. This may surprise some due to his history of valuing the individual’s life rather than
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The Animal Testing Paradox “Earth was created for all life‚ not just human life.”-Anthony Douglas Williams. Animal abuse can take forms in several different ways. One of the main ways that animals are mistreated is by cosmetic testing. The extremities of this topic have been kept out of the public eye for decades. Animal testing is wasteful‚ useless‚ and dangerous. The experiments that are done on these animals are gruesome. Bountiful amounts of people (about 62% in 2004 according to Heather Mason
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Animal Rights Introduction Thesis: An animal should be given rights because the way they are currently being treated is unethical and it should be banned. These animals are victims of factory farming‚ they are being hunted‚ and they are being tested on in laboratories. II. Body Paragraph 1: The method of factory farming has contributed to the abuse that animals have been receiving for many of years. A. Supporting evidence: These animals are being overcrowded in cages with poor air
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