Scientific innovation is based on trial and error. Experiment upon experiment is conducted in order to ensure that a certain hypothesis or treatment is valid or safe. However, there is a growing controversy behind the morality of certain types of testing; especially on animals. Scientists have been conducting experiments on animals for centuries, which has resulted in many medical advances that would have otherwise taken much longer to realize. Consequently though, a great multitude of people has
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With the expansive development of medicine and science, new methods of experimentation must be employed in order to develop highly sophisticated and extremely effective drugs to help combat diseases. A major issue arising from these advances in science have manifested through the animal testing done in laboratories with the purpose of ensuring a drug’s effectiveness for humans. Though many may argue that animals fully merit their own rights to not be tested on, it is not taken into account how often
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Jeremy Rifkin’s use of ethos in his article “A Change of Heart About Animals” (September 1, 2003) is not very effective in creating a strong argument that would change readers’ attitudes toward the treatment of animals and animal rights. Rifkin is an economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, and activist that writes about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy and society. His work focuses mostly on the economy, science, technology, and political science but
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The documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams by (Herzog, 2011) is about the greatest discoveries in history which is Chauvet cave, named after one of its discoverers. In 1994, only a small group of researchers in Southern France were allowed entrance to do their studies together. In 20,000 years ago, rocks covered the cave’s main entrance which made their entry to the cave difficult. However, they discovered several important things. First, the cave contained the oldest paintings that dating returned
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All animals truly deserve to lead joyful and healthy lives, yet over 100 million creatures are subjected to harsh animal testing experiments each year alone. New evidence has proved that animal tests are completely unregulated and no longer provide accurate results. Animal experimentation needs to be illegal in the United States because it is truly inhumane and completely unnecessary. Experiments using animals has been used for many centuries now. In fact, testing of animals can be traced all the
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that many Americans want to make a change to. I recently viewed a commercial based on animal cruelly that was created for the BCSPCA called Sarah McLachlan: Animal Cruelty Commercial. Which displays a vast amount of ethos, pathos and logos. Ethos is ethical appeal. With ethos the writer is trying to the convince the audience with credibility. In the BCSPCA’s Animal Cruelty Commercial, the commercial tries to convince the audience with the use of a celebrity. This commercial uses Sarah McLachlan. Most
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Animal Testing and the Harmful Processes Animal testing has been around for a number of years, yet the medical field can’t seem to catch up to the cosmetic field in testing technologies. Humans should put an end to animal testing. Animals’ perception of time makes the pain they are put through inhuman at best. Animal testing is often just previously done tests that already haven’t worked, making testing redundant and a waste of time. Animal testing is unnecessary with computer programs and human
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“Traditional animal testing is expensive, time-consuming, uses lots of animals and from a scientific perspective the results do not necessarily translate to humans.”- Dr. Christopher P. Austin. People believe that animal testing is helpful, but really it’s mostly harmful. 3 reasons that could convince you that tests are harmful, consider the following: animals and humans are not exactly the same, Animals are not treated like living organisms. Treatments and other things add up in $. If these reasons
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How legit is PETA? They claim to be this ethical organization with the largest animal rights organization in the world. I have always thought Peta was a genuine organization, yet animal lover Heather Harper can beg to differ in a story I recall reading my junior year of high-school. Harper had been an ex employee for fifteen years before speaking out about the organization in the article titled “WHISTLEBLOWER: PETA Ex-Employee Alleges She Was Encouraged to Steal and Kill Pets, and to Falsify info”
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