For many years‚ animals have been used in research both in the scientific and medical fields. In order to introduce new drugs into the market‚ they have to be tested first on animals in order to ascertain whether they are effective or not. Animal experimentation in this context defines the use of non-humans‚ mostly animals‚ to test new drugs and consumer goods such as cosmetics‚ pesticides‚ herbicides‚ food additives‚ among others (Taylor 120). Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions have
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Summary: The essay “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” by Peter Singer is about global responsibility‚ absurd conception of success and circle of ethics. The essay begins by asking students the questions about what they do if there was a drowning child. The essay later goes into detail that we shouldn’t limited ourselves to problems within a local area and that we must be focus on problems affecting the global community. Towards the end‚ it talks about society’s want for material thing
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Animal Experimentation: Unethical According to Utilitarianism Introduction: One of the most debated ethical issues is Animal Rights. Animals are so much a part of our lives and world that it is impossible to ignore the ethical issues we are faced with pertaining to the treatment of animals. What is difficult about these issues is that although animals have many similar attributes as humans they lack the developed brain function that humans have. Although many animals can feel pain‚ experience
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Should Animal experimentation be permitted? Throughout history‚ animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However‚ what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people seem to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live‚ and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques
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Animal Experimentation: Good or Bad? The controversy of animal experimentation in the cosmetics industry is one that was swept the globe and caused for a dispute of the morality of using animals to perceive the safety of certain products. While some people argue that new test animal experimentation is not always not always accurate‚ others provide evidence in which may deem animal testing unreliable. The effects of animal experimentation are clearly visible in the death rate of animals that
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up. Philosophers like Peter Singer and Martha Nussbaum bring up issues like this in the film The Examined Life as they associate the meaning of life‚ with how we live our lives within a society. Both philosophers discussed how society uses its advantage to oppress the minorities‚ they also brought up solutions for closing the gap/wedge between the majority
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In one of Peter Singer’s arguments defending animals rights he counter argues against Thomas Taylor a philosopher who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes which was a counterargument against Mary Wollstonecraft (Singer‚ 1). In Singer’s reply to Taylor he says that one might reply by saying the case for equality between men and women cannot be given to non-human animals (Singer‚ 2). To summarize this argument‚ Singer says that women are just as intelligent and capable of voting as men so they
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The Truth About Animal Experimentation Millions of animals are used in scientific and medical research‚ including mice‚ rats‚ rabbits‚ primates‚ cats‚ dogs and other animals. They are locked inside cold barren cages in laboratories across the country. Unfortunately all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedures that will be performed on them. More than 100 million animals every year suffer and dies in cruel chemical‚ drug‚ food and cosmetic
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Explain the Preference Utilitarianism of Peter Singer Preference Utilitarianism is based on the idea that a good action is one that maximises the preferences of all involved so that my own want‚ needs and desires cannot apply to everyone. Utilitarianism is a teleological or consequentialist approach to ethics‚ which means that the action’s outcome is looked at. It is the greatest happiness principle. It is the consequences of an action which judge whether it is good or bad. Preference Utilitarianism
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Animal Testing Have you ever wondered how people figured out if medicine works? Animal testing‚ or animal experimentation‚ has been going on for a long time. It is the process of using animals with similar DNA‚ such as chimpanzees‚ to test new cosmetic and medical products to try and figure out how they will work on humans. It is a very controversial subject . Some people argue animal testing provides valuable information for people and new products; Animal testing needs to be stopped because it
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