Animals Deserve Rights Not Abuse 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
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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
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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
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million 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
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I 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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