...Animals Deserve Rights Not Abuse Brandie Killgore DeVry University Animals have been seen as a lower species for decades. They have little to no rights and are sometimes treated inhumanely. No rights are given to them, so when they are abused there is little to no consequences. Hit an animal, make them live in dirty environments, forgot to feed them, leave them in the hot temperatures with no water, or torture them and the consequences are minor compared to the cruelty forced on that animal. Animals should have certain rights so that abusers can have harsher consequences which in turn could help with future crimes, but doesn’t mean that they can’t be raised to feed our society or be used for other services. For centuries animals have been used by society to perform different duties. They are food for our families, they help the disabled, used for transportation, and other jobs. Yet if asked some still believe that they are just animals and were put on this earth to service people, not be equals nor have rights. For years animal activists have been trying to get society to see animals more clearly for what they are, living breathing beings. Some people believe that animal rights activists care more about animals than they do about other people, which isn’t entirely true. Some of the more extreme activists do but most activists have expanded their circle of compassion so that it includes both humans and non-humans. Most just believe that animals deserve to live...
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...Animal Rights Jeremy Bentham, author of the Principles of Morals and Legislation, said about animals, “The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?” (Ratcliffe 14). Determining what rights animals deserve to be given is a decision that has been fought over for decades. People are rising to defend and protect animals from certain treatment that has been declared unacceptable to human beings. People want to give them more rights to protect them from exploitation and abuse. Recently, a lot has changed in laws and the attitude of citizens in the United States towards animal rights due to the public being more conscious of the unfair and cruel actions inflicted on animals. To gain awareness on animal rights,...
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...companion animals enter shelters” by cause of abuse. (“Pet Statistics”). Innocent animals are caged, slaughtered, tortured, and hoarded and as a result at least “500 animals die every day” (“Animal Abuse”). People who abuse animals obtain sick thoughts towards believing animals not having any rights. They claim that animals do not deserve the same rights as humans because it would mean that humans are equated with animals. In addition, people who agree would say that animals do not respect human’s rights, so humans do not need to respect animal’s rights. Knowing that there are people out there that believe “the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world” (“A Quote by Paul Farmer”)....
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...am against animal cruelty or abuse because animals deserve the right to be treated with love, affection, and respect. No animal should suffer cruelty or abuse by the hands of humans. Many people think animals can be discarded like nothing. They deserve the right to live in an environment that gives them the affection, care and love that they deserve. They should not be treated with neglect, used for industrial animal farming or for psychological disorder. Neglecting an animal by not providing the basic care required for an animal to thrive; such as food, water, shelter and veterinary care is against the law. Neglect can occur in many different ways from abandonment, starvation and mistreatment. Abandonment of an animal occurs when the animal is thrown out like trash. Walking the in the streets suffering from the elements. Starvation is another form of neglect; not providing the necessary nutrition is crucial for them to survive. Without water or food animals die of starvation. How can you stand and watch an animal suffer? Humans without emotion, feelings or heart should not deserve the right to own an animal. Chaining up an animal is a form of mistreatment. Some animals are used for fights or as prey for training. Animals that are injured due to mistreatment do not get the medical care they need. Those who misbehave are not discipline right instead they are mistreated by getting kicked or punch. They take their anger out on a defenseless animal. Industrial animal farming is...
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...Animal Bill of Rights People consider animals no more than property that do not have nor deserve any legitimate legal rights. This restricts the legal protection accessible to animals; without any legal protection, they are defenseless against human cruelty. An Animal Bill of Rights can provide the protection and rights animals deserve. “Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in American laboratories from medical experimentation and cosmetics testing” (Animal Experiments). Yet, there are still no existing laws that limit or regulate the practice of testing on animals. Animal testing does not contribute to improving human health because results gained from animal testing can be incorrect and misleading; these test are wasteful and unreliable. The anatomy of animals and humans do not contain a lot of similarities. So, why are we still conducting these experiments if there is no real benefit to humans? In fact, drugs prescribed to patients would be a lot safer if it wasn’t tested on animals. Human volunteers is an alternative to animal testing and is more reliable way of testing....
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...Animal Rights This argument about animal needing rights has been going on since the twentieth century. Until this day animals still do not receive he rights they deserve. Not all animals deserve to be locked up in a cage at a zoo or in a scientist’s laboratory. How we treat animals has shown an uncivilized community. Prejudice has a way of denying that animal rights have no expectations to the fact that they should be given the rights as we have for ourselves. Doesn’t matter what the case may be, prejudice is morally unacceptable, because think about it, you will eat a pig or cow but it’s in human to eat a dog. [pic] Eating animals isn’t bad but it’s on the wrong side. The way factories torture the cows, pigs, and chickens is the wrong way that we should be eating them. This book that I read Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals By Gary L. Francione and Anna Charlton, explains that they agree that “unnecessary” suffering and death on animals are ridiculous. The book explains that there will be no different on how we make our meat. Another book by Gary L. Francione, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? This book explains that an animal should have rights to live without suffering, just how humans live without suffering. In the Los Angeles Times, there was an article Animal rights, writ too large? This article explains that you can be against animal abuse and animals having rights. But don’t be an hypocrite...
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...Animal Rights Priscilla Peterman University of Phoenix Com/156 Instructor James Christianson This research paper is going to discuss a major concern with the issue of animal rights and how people view this critical issue. Animals deserve rights, and these rights should annihilate the many problems with animal abuse, abandonment, and animal experimentation. Animals deserve the same rights as humans. Animals, subsequently dating back to the days of Ancient Greece, have always held a place in the hearts of humans. And for so long as this animal human relation existed, so did the realism of taking care of the animals, whether it be in the form of love, care and equal rights. The idea that we are all born with essential rights, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is important to our society, mainly to the ideas stated in the United States Constitution. Though, humanities inconsiderately demean this principle by denying that animals share these rights. Animals are just as titled to the rights of living, avoiding pain, and pursuing happiness as humans are. Yet still we exploit and abuse them cruelly, most often without a second thought. The use of animals in biomedical research, segmentation, testing and education, deprives animals of their natural rights and is a great injustice. We must believe that this is completely intolerable, and we should find more humane as well as...
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...Animal Experimentation Animals have been used to test a wide variety of products from household products to dangerous medical treatments. Although treatments like this have been helpful to humans and kept us safe; many people believe animals have the same rights as humans. People also say that animals should not be allowed to be used in such way that will not be beneficial to them. In some cases it has also been said that animals are being mistreated in the labs while going through the experiments. Animals deserve to have the same rights as humans do. They do not deserve to be tested with all of these chemicals and household products, as well as medical treatments. None of this benefits the animals themselves. How do we know that animal is going to have the same reaction to a product as a human, realistically this can harm us in a way as well. In my eyes animal experimentation is cruelty to all of the animals that are used in a lab. Why should these animals be used in such way that is not beneficial to them? One product that is used on animals is make-up. A product that is not needed by humans, but is used because we want it. There is no reason what so ever to have to test make up on animals in the lab, it is not a product that is needed to survive, it’s a want, not a need. Half of these products that are used on animals are not important to humans. The pain and suffering that animals are put through is disgusting. Some being abused, others with very little food...
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...In Steven M. Wise's article, “Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights”, Wise states that having rights is important because it shows importance of existence. Humans have come a long way from once being classified as objects or things by other humans to "now every human is a person in the eyes of the law" thanks to legal rights. However, Wise believes legal rights should not be exclusive to humans. He believes animals who are deprived of legal protection should be defended from torture, abuse, and exploitation. For the majority of his argument, Wise explains why autonomy is not a valid reason why animals do not deserve legal rights. Yet, there are so many other points left out that can validate rights for animals. Wise briefly touched on fact that "Judeo-Christian theologians sometimes argue that humans are made in the image of God", implying humans are far more superior than nonhumans and should be given rights. However, the Bible states nonhumans or animals are also the creation of God, thus, it wouldn't make sense to regard animals as just things and treat them like so if humans are also created by God. The point is, even if one believes in God or not, nowhere does it say humans are above all other living things. All living things are granted the same privilege to live and exist. Humans aren't asked to treat animals as equals in terms of giving animals all human rights but to treat them with respect and decency. People may think little of animals and their role in society. But the...
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...Animal Rights Baxter Pittman DeVry University Animal Rights Animals had played an important role in human society. Back in ancient time, people had hunted animals for food, their skins and bones were used for clothing, shelter and tools. Then today, people such as farmers, pet owners, animal breeders, zoo keepers, and research scientists have used animals in a different way. This relates to the common good because humans shouldn’t use animals for their own personal or selfish interests. This also relates to individual rights because animals deserve to be treated with respect, like humans beings do. To make this happen we must allow farm animals to have their own rights where they are free from danger and cruelty from human beings. We need to be fair and set laws like the ASPCA works to rescue animals from abuse, humane laws and share resources with shelters nationwide that would help animals rather than hurt them. Animal rights is an issue dealing with the moral rights of animals due to animal testing, the use of animals for sports and entertainment, animals as food and products, and animal abuse. Animal experimentation is used to improve human health by using animals in biomedical and veterinary research. I believe that the reasons why people are experimenting on animals are to find out more about the animals themselves, and to test substances and procedures to see if they are harmful. Animals were merely a part of our food chain at the start of time, and then we needed...
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...English 1120 1 October 2015 Should animals be used for scientific research? How many of you look at that pill you’re taking for that migraine or for that nasty sinus infection that has taken you down for the count and know that the animals used in the research are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, withheld food and water, burned and given other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study the effects and treatment? They have even killed by asphyxiation, decapitation, and neck breaking stating they will be able to transfer the good of all of this barbaric treatment to help humans and animals. Animals don’t deserve to be in pain and given diseases with a death sentence to try to prove that a certain medicine or product might work. Animals have feelings just like us humans. I challenge you to tell or even show me that your dog or cat does not have feelings or its own personality. You can’t do it. Why would that cat run or dog go curl up under a table when you yell at them for doing something wrong? Because, they have feelings and know right from wrong. They were taught this from a young age just like we teach our own children to behave. There are alternative testing methods in today’s world that can replace the need for animal use. There are labs that do studying of cell structures in a petri dish. In-Vitro (in glass) testing. This type of testing can produce more relevant results than animal testing because human cells can be used...
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...How did the question, “should animals have rights” come about? The question has always been there, however during the 70s activists started to defend animal rights and founded the movement that was pro animal rights. In the 60s there was pro rights for minorities and women, so it would only we started rights for animals. Why should animals have rights? Animals certainly deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation. Peter Singer states, “That the basic principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment, it requires equal consideration “. Human and animals differ in many ways, but like humans all animals have the ability to feel pleasure, pain, frustration, fear, loneliness, and motherly love. We are morally...
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...major religion to the issue of animal’s right. (30 marks) There are many different attitudes towards issues of animal rights. Some believe that exploiting animals for uses such as, medical, cosmetics and domestic testing there is also a growing concern about the abuse and use of animals in some such as blood sports and zoos. Although, there is animal rights in place, animals till get exploited and abused Within this essay I will outline how traditional Christians view animals and how modern day christens view animals and how both views conflict; I will also outline philosopher’s views of animal rights. The traditional Christians view is that animals should be preyed on and eaten but others, this is known as ‘nature red in tooth and claw’. Traditional Christian’s downgraded animals in three ways, god created animals for the use of human beings so, therefore, believe that humans could do as they pleased with animals, Also, they thought that animals were worth little moral consideration as animals don’t have souls or reason, whereas, humans do, However, they also thought that animals were in relation to humans but not on the same terms. Although, not all traditional Christian’s believed that not all animals were regarded with little worth some saints demonstrated that Christian’s should treat animals with respect and kindly. Stt Anton of Padua preached to fish’s and St Francis of Assisi preached to the birds and became a popular pro-animal Christian. Throughout the bible we...
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...People hear about animal abuse and do nothing about it, and it needs to stop soon. Parents need to teach the kid how to take care of an animal because the people that don't have an animal are most likely the ones not to take proper care of the animal. There are many problems in the world, but one of the biggest ones is animal abuse. Help!! Animals are dying and being abused right now, Such as your favorite animal like dogs, cats and even pigs and cattle. Dogs are the most common animal to abuse. 4 64.4 % dogs are abused and 25% of them were different kinds of pit bulls. 18% are cat abused and 25% other animals being abused. People kill animals for their fur. Such as chinchillas, minks , opossums, raccoons, rabbits, otters and many more animals. 5 It takes 30 to 300 chinchillas, 60 mink, 45 opossums, 40 raccoons to make a 40 inch fur coat. Australia loses 1,000 sheep die a year and in another state they chop off hooves while they are still...
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...Cara Drape, an animal Welfare Officer of the city of Edmond Animal Services, on the topic of animal welfare, she believes animals do have rights and it is an obligation to take care and provide for them; we should learn to leave in peace with one another; no animal should be allowed to starve to death, whether is an ant colony or a cow; she believes in veterinarians and animal right activists ; that anyone who deals with animals should know that they feel pain; that they feel cold and hot; that they have emotions just like people do. She also informed me that certain organizations prefer that no person owned any animals; because, animals need to be free and in their natural habitat. However, she believes that anyone should be able to own a...
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