...Animals affect human life by giving company and happiness when no one else is willing. The human race would not know what to do if animals did not exist. Animals, like humans, have legal rights within the United States, including the right to be free from exploitation, abuse, neglect, and research. Animal testing is not a new form of research; the exploration of human and animal bodies began centuries ago. In the 3rd century, animals and humans were the first organisms used to satisfy anatomical curiosity, long before the development of anesthetics. Research and testing on animals has now become cruel and degrading to a point where alternatives need to be found. The research affects not only the animals and the public but also the people who...
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...is harmed and by how much? a. Market Stakeholders: (1) Employees of the animal facility: The current employees of the animal facilities will no longer feel at risk doing day-to-day operations, when dealing with animals, due to the proposed bill. High Impact (2) Employee Managers of the animal facility: The managers of the employees will no longer have to worry about company policies being recorded for lawsuits, reducing the stress on the managers. High Impact (3) Stockholders: Stockholders of the animal facility will no longer have to worry about the company having to pay large court fees and litigation expenses due to lawsuits of unethical behavior because of pictures or videos of poor treatment of animals. Medium Impact (4) Customers: Customers will realize lower prices for the meat produced at the animal facilities due to the lower amounts the business will be spending on lawsuits. Medium Impact. (5) Suppliers: Suppliers to the animal facilities will also face lower risks of being sued for animal cruelty due to the proposed bill. High Impact (6) Retailers/wholesalers: Retailers of the finished goods will still be able to sell the finished meat products to customers. Low Impact. Creditors: Lower risk of lawsuits will lower the risk of the business not being able to pay its bills. Medium Impact. b. Non-Market Stakeholders: Communities: higher risk of animal cruelty taking place at the animal facilities, and could cause strain on communities. Low Impact. Nongovernmental...
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...Criminal Code Amendment (Animal Protection) Bill’s main purpose is really to enhance the protection of domestic animals or is it rather to protect the commercial and trading interests of the animal industries. These amendments would deter the investigators who have been extremely successful in exposing animal cruelty. Remarks have been made regarding the bill not being concerned with people who witness the animal cruelty firsthand, but only if one records or photographs malicious animal cruelty. The RSPCA has urged a federal senate committee in order to throw out the proposed bill. RSPCA Australia Policy Officer, Mr Jed Goodfellow has stated that this bill “is focused on the wrong people” he believes...
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...is appalling that we mistreat animals who do not have a voice to speak up for themselves. We have laws that are suppose to protect animals; however, “an animal is abused and tortured every ten seconds in America” (Animal Cruelty). An Animal Bill of Rights is a better way we can enforce these laws and offer better protection for animals; it gives animals a much needed voice. Every year, more than a hundred million defenseless, innocent animals are being experimented on in merciless ways. Twenty- six million of those animals are just in the United States and 95% of those experiments are not protected by Federal Animal Welfare, one of the existing laws for animals. One of the most common and...
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...heard of animal abuse, we will know that it is about animal being deliberately harmed. Nowadays, animal abuse has become a nationwide problem that grows rapidly. You can see that millions of animal was beaten, starved and being helpless every day and died each year from a ruthless master through the news coverage. This shows that animal abuse proves to be an important topic and a widely known for every people. There are many reasons and motives behind animal cruelty that have been exposed. These include apathy towards suffering of the animals, giving pain and suffering to animals from some specific benefit or hurting animals for the pleasure, etc. Animal abuse can be classified into two categories which are active abuse and passive abuse. Firstly are active abuses that are direct cruelty to animals. It is individual that tries to harm animal, like torturing or beating. Next is passive abuse that includes lack of care or negligence towards pets. Generally, this is the situation when pet owners did not aware and bother to take proper care of the pet’s needs. In the other way, we must not forget intensity of incidence or incidence of smaller can also be regarded as the example of animal cruelty. Animals are not happy in the places that they are treated cruelty and poorly and have no rights as they should. In this century, a lot of people do not understand what happens to animals that are used for experiments in company or industry. The main problem of animal test is the animal usually...
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...an interest group, with examples. The interest group that I will discuss in this paper is the one of the most well-known animal rights groups in the world; People for the ethical treatment of animals, commonly known as, PETA. Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The group first came to public attention in 1981 during the Silver Spring monkey’s case, a dispute about experiments conducted by researcher Edward Taub on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Eldercare Home Health, 2012) The case led to the first police raid in the United States on an animal laboratory, triggered an amendment in 1985 to the United States Animal Welfare Act, and became the first animal-testing case to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which upheld a Louisiana State Court ruling that denied PETA's request for custody of the monkeys. Pacheco had taken a job in May 1981 inside a primate research laboratory at the Institute, intending to gain firsthand experience of working inside an animal laboratory. Taub had been cutting sensory ganglia that supplied nerves to the monkeys' fingers, hands, arms, and legs, a process...
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...Animal Rights Many animals are lucky, they have a family where they get love, shelter and food but some animals aren’t so lucky; these animals are neglected, beaten, or ignored. Some people do not give animals respect; they are just an object that can be replaced at any time. It is obvious by the way animals are exploited that their rights are almost nonexistent. This exploitation includes animals that are used for entertainment, sport, breeding, and experiments. Animal activist are trying to get animals’ rights and observed and enforced by all. Humans use animals in many different ways besides as pets. Estee Lauder, Avon and Mary Kay have resumed animal testing on cosmetics to sell in China — even as the companies continue to claim in the United States that their products are cruelty-free (Sullivan). Laboratories use animals to test makeup, and for medical research; sometimes the animals are not given any anesthesia or pain medicine. The animals are caged or held in rooms that are so crowded that they cannot even move (Guillermo). Because they are going to be used for experiments or research often they are not given enough food and water. They may never be allowed outside of the cage again (Guillermo). Laboratories buy these animals from pounds such as the Pound Seizure program. This program allows animal shelters to sell animals to labs for experimenting or research; there are five states that have this program. These shelters that have too many animals are allowed to...
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...mentioning the 2 different types of cruelty that is happening right now, it is time to talk about 2 organizations that are currently helping the animals in danger. The 2 organizations that I will write about are the Humane Society and PETA. First, I will write about the Humane Society and how they are helping animals from cruelty. The Humane Society of the U.S. is the nation’s largest and most effective animal protection organization with 11 million members and constituents (HSUS). This organization was founded in 1954 by Fred Myers, Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser. The original name of the HSUS was the National Humane Society. The Humane Society and their affiliates provide direct care to more than 100,000...
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...The Ethical Treatment of Animals in America Arline Edmiston SOC 120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility Professor Susanne Elliott September 11, 2012 As with the majority of subjects that involve ethics, there is always more than just one point of view. It is not any different when it comes to the ethical treatment of animals. In fact, it has been the subject in which a few near war like situations have happened. For example, there are people who believe that any time an animal is killed even if that animal did not suffer they still see it as being wrong. Although, on the other hand there are people who relish in the ability to be able to eat meat and kill animals. However, the bottom line is that most people are somewhere in the middle over how they feel about what happens to the animals of the animal world that we share our world with. I will be going over some of these ideas and also be talking about some the groups associated with these ideas. The issue of animal rights is a very complex and touchy subject. There are both positive and negative sides to the animal rights issue. Both sides of which seem to have major contradictions to both themselves and to each other. Animal rights people have proposed that in the basic interest of the animals such things as avoidance of suffering should be given the same attention that it would be given to any human being. One such animal rights organization that believes this is PETA or People for the Ethical...
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... 2 Annotated Bibliography THESIS STATEMENT: Animal abuse does not just happen on a local level, it happens on a global scale, sometimes to unbelievable proportions. Having harsher penalties for those who abuse animals would set an example, make others think twice before committing the abuse, have the crimes become a reality, give abused animals a voice and hold abusers accountable for their actions. Beirne, P. (2009). Confronting Animal Abuse, Law, Criminology and Human-Animal Relationships. Retrieved from: http://www.ebook3000.com/animals/Confronting-Animal-Abuse--Law--Criminology--and-Human-Animal-Relationships_64354.html The e-book offered great insight into where abuse dated back to, or at least documented abuse, and gave a great prospective into the human-animal relationships. It states abuse can be traced back to 1635 in the Irish plow fields and that still to this day, animal abuse is socially accepted in some cultures. For many years animal rights was shaped by human interest and not in the welfare of animals, which is why the laws have changed over the years. There is no animal that is spared from abuse, from lab testing on animals to domesticated house pets, the abuse is wide scale. I think this book was very reliable and had a lot of good points from where...
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...Humans have the ability to talk but animals do not; therefore, it is our responsibility to treat them fairly and protect the rights that every living creature should have. Animals cannot give their opinion, so they should not be used in lab testing. Also, animals should not be treated wrong because they cannot defend for themselves. Animals should be feel loved and not have fear from being hurt because they have feelings too. Animal cruelty is the failure to take care of an animal. (Animal Abuse and Neglect). Neglect is not giving an animal food, water, shelter or care. Many animals are used in laboratories for testing. The U.S. allows animals to be abuse, burned and have brain damaged. (“Cruelty to Animals in Laboratories”). Over one-hundred...
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...Does Granting Animals Human Rights Make Sense? University Does Granting Animals Human Rights Make Sense? Throughout history, there has been any number of people belonging to various groups that for one reason or another were persecuted, oppressed, or otherwise denied equality with the rest of society. Over time, these groups have either formed their own activism or received sponsorship from another group with the goal of achieving equality in the eyes of society, if not in the eyes of the law. Workers, women, minorities, and homosexuals are examples of such groups where the pursuit of what we have come to call human rights has both made history and changed society. This document will explore the question: “does granting animals human rights make sense?” While it is understood that human beings, the species Homo sapiens sapiens, are members of the animal kingdom, for the sake of this discussion use of the term “animals” will refer to those that are non-human. Much of the rhetoric emanating from the animal rights debate is highly emotionally charged. By approaching the issue from the perspective of a reasonable person, it is possible to strike a balance by ensuring the humane treatment of animals where human culture and purposes intersect with the animal kingdom. Often, the animal rights debate is referred to as though there were only two sides to the argument. One side would grant rights to animals that are equivalent to the rights humans strive to afford one another...
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...others are mistreating dogs by using them for their entertainment. Dog fighting is still occurring today. It is big business in many parts of the county. This often happens in areas where there is poverty. Dog fighting is seen as “the quick” money. Some highly organized groups even use a secret dialect called the “Cajon Dictionary” on social network sites to plan fighting events discretely. This cruelty is also most often linked between more crimes including; illegal firearms possession, drug trafficking, gambling, spousal and child abuse, rape, and homicide. Regardless of if you can make money from it or not, dog fighting is a very cruel activity that should never occur anywhere in the world. A dog cannot speak for itself and say, “Stop!” That’s why more people need to be aware of this epidemic and see what is being done to help end it. Ancient Romans pitted dogs against each other in gladiatorial contests, but dogs have also played practical roles in society. Dogs have long been used as hunting companions, defenders of property and protectors of livestock against poachers and wild animals. They play key roles in military and K-9 police units. French bulldogs and Old Boston Bulldogs killed household vermin and therefore made valuable pets. “In England, bulldogs that were crossbred with terriers were forced to attack bulls or a bear, a practice called bull-baiting that was outlawed in 1835. Following this prohibition, dogfighting developed as a distinct practice, with dogs being...
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...Should Animals Have Rights? Though the history of the world is often the subject of heated debates, there are a few facts that are undisputed. One of these facts is that animals inhabited our planet long before humans did. This, in a sense, makes animals a kind of “grandfather” of the planet Earth. Humans have, in fact, been dependent on animals for thousands of years. From Native Americans following buffalo herds, to long voyage travelers bring dried meat to fight scurvy; animals have played a vital part of our history. So one must wonder, why, as humanity progresses towards a bigger and brighter future, the way we treat animals is becoming increasingly cruel. While animals have always been seen as a resource, a steady supply of food and clothing, our treatment of them has become nothing short of appalling. Since humans are so dependent on animals for their well being, their comfort, and in some cases their religion; there should be a moral obligation to treat animals decently. We use animals to help us is a variety of different ways. We use dogs for seeing and guiding the blind. We use them for search and rescue; our mutually beneficial relationship is ever evolving. This includes but is not limited to, emotional, psychological, and physical interactions with people, other animals, and the environment. Pets may be the only daily companions for elderly and special needs populations, and occupy the role of physical and emotional care-givers for these people. According...
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...have conducted many harmful acts on animals. Some animal rights groups have fought to stop these parties they include the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Animal Liberation Front, PAWS, and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Suffering and Exploitation and Trans-Species Unlimited. There are various different tactics used by these animal rights groups. They range from raising awareness, to lobbying to public demonstrations, against institutions which have taken advantage of helpless animals. Public demonstrations were the most effective. 1 Hurt Fido and Suffer the Consequences: Tactics and Impacts of the Animal Rights Movement “I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it”- said Abraham Lincoln. Animals are abused around the world, in circuses they are used in tricks. The American Museum of Natural History inflicted male cat’s brains with lesions to give the cat sexual urges for other species. The best known animal rights movement in the world is, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) which was founded in March, 1980, in Norfolk, Virginia by Ingrid Newirk and Alex Pacheco. The Animal Liberation Front, founded in 1976, by Ronnie Lee, has received the reputation of being the most violent organization when saving animal, along with, Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and the Trans-Species Unlimited (TSU) the Coalition to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation (CEASE) and...
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