INTRODUCTION: Voices demanding the rights of animals against vivisection have been louder then ever over the past thirty years. ... Animal rights against vivisection have been expressed in a serious of protest and riots, which have fallen short of their purpose. ... In a counter argument some believe animals or "beast" are not entitled to such moral rights. ... SOULD ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS?: There is much controversy on weather or not animals should be given rights. ...

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In George Orwell's allegorical fable "Animal Farm" (1945), the animals drive the tyrant owner Mr. ... The pigs formulate the Seven Commandments of Animalism, one of which is "All animals are equal", reflecting the American Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal." ... The fact that this Commandment is later changed to "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" illustrates the corruption of people. ... Martin Luther King and the leaders of the civil rights movement advocated the desegregation of schooling. ...

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People say: "We have rights over animals. ... You have no rights over them. ... Not only is animal research harmful to animals, it is harmful to humans as well. ... In 1986, the Animals Scientific Procedures Act was passed to ensure regulations on animal experimentation. ... Researchers must also replace animals by developing non-animal techniques that can be used in experiments instead of using animals. ...

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BILL OF RIGHTS The Bill of Rights today is not followed by the American people. ... Our rights have been lessened throughout the years. ... This is why today in our world the Bill of Rights is not being followed the way that it should be. ... For example, there are religions that say that you can marry as many women as you want, other religions let you sacrifice animals these things are against the law. ... The Bill of Rights is one of the best things that this country has. ...

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(Cottrol,p.65) Now the bill of rights was created to protect the people of the United States of America, and I can and will prove to you that by limiting the rights of gun owners and dealers it is infringing their rights as U.S. citizens and should not be tolerated. ... They needed the animals that were killed by using guns to feed their families. ... Freedom is something that most Americans have taken for granted and the reason we have freedom today is because people respected the Amendments and gave the people the rights they deserve. ... Without firearms our country is exposing itself...

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This false perception is fueled by groups supporting abortion rights and then uncritically unaccepted by the media. ... It seems ironic that people can get so emotional when it comes to animal rights, yet see no wrong in ripping a developed baby from the protection of the mother. ... The value of human life is much more important than the rights of animals and yet more people believe that the rights of animals are the same as humans. ...

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Ethical Positions on Animal Cloning Science and human values often clash. ... There is a greater tolerance for cloning animals to serve human purposes. However, some groups oppose animal cloning for moral reasons. ... The prevailing perspective is that it is morally permissible to use animals in scientific research if the research can be shown to benefit humans or other animals. ... This "animal rights" perspective holds that animals experience pain and have human, or human like, emotions and thus should not be subjected to experimentations that can lead to confinement, pain and suffering, ...

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Many farms in today's world are failing due to a lack of sufficient land and sources in order to begin and sustain a functional environment for the animals and their ability to increase production. ... Animals are often crammed into tight spaces. ... This is where the animal rights activists come into play. ... The main concerns of the animal rights activists are primarily focused on the welfare of the animals as well as damage to the overall environment. ...

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HSUS, The Humane Society of the United States has fought for animal rights and protection for fifty years now. They have fought for causes such as protecting animals from extinction, pain and distress in laboratory testing, killing for fur fashions, animal uses for food, as well as keeping the natural human-animal bond strong. ... HSUS has over 7,000,000 members and supporters worldwide and therefor is powerful and large enough to attract the attention of politicians to listen to issues concerning animals. ...

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The gun is designed so that the nail never completely leaves the gun, but simply is blown into the animal's head and then pulled out by the butcher as the animal collapses. ... Animal rights, is a topic that is very important to me. ... Humans and animals are different in many ways. Many drugs that are approved for human use based on animal studies have been taken off the market at a later date because of side effects, not revealed in animal studies. ... Animal testing is cruel and merciless. ...

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No product is worth the death of so many animals when there are many other, more efficient tests that do not involve or harm animals' lives. ... Cosmetic testing on animals is cruel and inhumane. One of the experiments used in animal testing is the removal of fetuses from pregnant animals. ... It does not make sense that some continue to deny that animals do not deserve rights because they are not like humans, when that is the main reason that companies test on them. ... The animal tests are unreliable and just result in the killing of innocent animals. ...

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(Gould 1858: 35) Its not that Lincoln thought blacks where evil or should be treated like animals. ... The hard liners were treated there slaves like animals and had no remorse. ... They to thought blacks were inferior, but they didn't think that people of color were animals. These slave owners weren't unfairly cruel to their slaves and believed that rights of freedom did not depend on their intelligence. Thomas Jefferson wrote "Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights."...

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The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and its liberal friends are dead wrong when they say that affirmative action somehow upholds equal rights. ... He had a dream of equal rights for everyone. He did not say that some should have more rights than others because of the ethnicity into which they were born. He did not say that all are created equal but some are created more equal than others (Animal Farm, anyone?) ...

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It is seen in texts such as the film, Wag The Dog, the novel Animal Farm and in Martin Luther King's speeches. ... Many animals on the farm, Old Major and Squealor to be specific, used speech and language to gain power over other animals. ... All animals are comrades", he strongly repeated. ... He grossly describes in detail, shocking all of the animals with his exaggerations. ... Retelling the story of the emergence and development of Soviet communism in the form of an animal fable, Animal Farm allegorizes the rise to power of the dictator Joseph Stalin. ...

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This in turn would cause many plant and animals to have difficult adjusting to the change. ... What's more, they believe that the small amount of warming that has occurred during the past century would help plant and animal life. There would be warmer winters (longer growing seasons and less stress on plant and animal life) and there would be a surplus in water supplies. ... There would be no Constitution, no Bill of Rights, or the existence of the United States for that matter. ...

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One of the main reasons African-Americans started the civil rights movement was to show that they were not different than anyone else, and that they deserved the same rights and liberties as any one American. ... The white people surely did not want to share a drinking fountain with these animals. ... This was normal behavior in the south during the civil rights period. ... There were many effects of the Civil Rights movement also. ... The right to vote was another big accomplishment of the civil rights movement. ...

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This idea of Manifest Destiny was reasoned that "Native Americans had forfeited their rights to the land because they hadn't settled down to improve it." ... The plain Indian treated this animal as sacred performing rituals before and after killing and also using every part for some need. ... Soon with these mass killings the American buffalo would go from being one of our country's most abundant animal to endangered specie. ...

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He was a civil-rights lawyer and teacher before pursuing a political career and Obama also worked in Chicago as a community organizer for low-income residents. Living in a country where people like me were treated as less than humans and treated like animals and used as free labor, his achievement puts things in perspective for all people living in America of African descent; and being that just about 60 years ago there were barely any black people in politics. ... Martin Luther King JR. paved the way for the achievement of a black person to be president possible and Barack Obama made it hap...

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However the means by which action is being taken puts human rights, environmental safety and democratic values into jeopardy. ... However, because this chemical can be sprayed over a larger area, it poses a higher threat to other plants, animals and humans. ... Human rights, environmental preservation, and democratic ideals must be a part of a successful plan. ...

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An international treaty known as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora went into effect in 1975 to outlaw the trade of endangered animals and animal parts. ... The Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 and ratified by more than 160 countries, obligates governments to take action to protect plant and animal species. By looking at these reactions to the extinction of animals and plants, it is evident throughout the world, that the preservation of endangered species has become a major controversy that can not go...

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The basic technique used to clone humans and animals, somatic-cell nuclear transfer, involves the insertion of DNA from a somatic cell into an egg which has had its nucleus removed (Appendix A.2). ... A clone is genetically identical to the person or animal who provided the somatic cell that provided the DNA. ... (Appendix A.5) There has also been concern over the rights of a human clone. ...

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Other issues that prompt protests are animal rights, the distribution of wealth (inequality), and the loss of culture and tradition. ... The impact of free trade and globalization on labor rights has been overlooked. Countries that consistently violate international labor conventions disadvantage countries that enforce labor rights. ... What are the rights of labor in a globalized economy when labor cannot move as easily as capital? ... Cosmopolitans believe that "political boundaries have no particular significance," that "moral claims," or the rights of all human beings, are universally shar...

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A revolution is a justified mean of change as motivates and inspires people to press for their rights that will benefit the country and future generations as a whole. ... No questions of constitutionality or the natural rights of his subject need trouble him. ... Habitants, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, and children and the soil that bore them all won out." ... Therefore, a Continental Congress was set to defence their rights and liberties. ... "All men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these life, LIBERTY, a...

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(Appiah 97) Since early in our evolution, humans, like many other animals, have had the natural desire to form communities to fulfill our needs. ... Humans, however, have obviously evolved past mere survival; we now desire rights, freedom, property, wealth, etc., all of which fall under the umbrella of "survival." Allegiance to a nation-state provides citizens with the benefits of civil rights, protection from criminals, war, and terrorism, and access to education and health care. ... Though this cultural identity is positive in that it grounds people, giving them roots and a sense of be...

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(Bailey 110), people would consider this a violation of its human rights. For instance, if a patient were cloned involuntarily, that would likely be a violation of the patient's existing constitutional rights to privacy and reproductive freedom. ... They claim through their extensive research that they can make "plants and animals more resistant to disease, less expensive to grow and more nutritious?... Scientists are also using genetic engineering to develop safer vaccines to prevent animal diseases and new therapies (120). ... Even the "data on animal cloning demonstrates exceptionally ...

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