It seems like we have forgotten about animals' rights and freedoms so much that we have captured, caged and inbred them solely for our own entertainment. ... According to the Humane Society of the United States animal cruelty can either be deliberate abuse or a simple failure to care properly for an animal. ... Animals don't have written rights like humans because of course they can't agree to them but does that mean that they don't deserve have any? ... Stephen Bostock, the author of Zoos and Animal Rights: The Ethics of Keeping Animals says that "the rule should be ...

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Animal rights activists form groups that try to stop animal testing while scientists around the world argue that it is an important procedure that has led to many discoveries. ... But the EPA tested arsenic enriched water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was already known. Many scientists prefer animal tests as opposed to non-animal tests even though "non-animal tests are often faster, cheaper, and their results are less subject to manipulation [ ]"(Sandler 46). ... Gina Solomon from the NRDC does not agree with t...

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Animal rights activists form groups that try to stop animal testing while scientists around the world argue that it is an important procedure that has led to many discoveries. ... But the EPA tested arsenic enriched water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was already known. Many scientists prefer animal tests as opposed to non-animal tests even though "non-animal tests are often faster, cheaper, and their results are less subject to manipulation [ ]"(Sandler 46). ... Gina Solomon from the NRDC does not agree with t...

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There's an ongoing debate regarding the rights of animals. Animal rights seek to guarantee animals with a sense of entitlement. ... Furthermore, proponents of animal rights also argue that human beings are not superior to animals. ... This can be achieved through animal rights (Francione, 2003). ... The consumption of animal meat is a practice central to the animal rights debate. ...

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Animal Rights Terrorism Animals all across the worlds are terrorized day after day, whether it's for the use of cheap food, safe medicines or the making of a new product. ... Animal Rights are as important, if not equally important to human rights. The doctrine of species has encouraged more people to think of animal rights in the same way that the rest of humanity thinks of human rights (Singer, Regan). ... Congress passed an Animal Enterprise Protection Act, with part in response to radical activities on behalf of animal rights. ... The accepted view is that all people and animals q...

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Equality and the various levels of equality are excellent arguments when dealing with a cause such as animal rights. ... Utilitarianism has a place in the animal rights movement. ... Reagan has a totally different view in how to achieve the animal rights outcomes for the Animal Liberation Movement. ... The differing views of differing rights add to the benefit of animal rights campaigners, whether it is equal rights, moral rights or inherent values. ... Our view of values has created the abuse and the need for rights for animals. ...

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These opponents include animal- rights extremists and vivisectionist groups who believe that animal experimentation is cruel and unnecessary, irrespective of its purpose and benefits. ... Since animals do not have the same cognitive abilities as humans have, therefore animals are not part of the human moral community and should not be granted human rights. Without the human rights, animals are allowed to be used for research. Animal experimentation is ethical because humans have a higher moral status than animals and animals lack human rights. ... Animals do not have certain human rights th...

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Humans have been using animals, since the beginning of time. ... Though as time pass, animals have been taken for granted. ... However, in many experiments, pain and suffering does occur and their rights are clearly violated. ... In other words, I declare that we should give animals basic legal rights to protect them from being mistreated. ... We owe a great debt to them, which we can repay by being humane and considerate at all times of their basic rights. ...

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By educating the student through literature, video, internet, guest speakers, and then requiring them to get some hands-on experience, they will be able to gain a good understanding of the issue of Animal Rights and Animal Rights Activism. There are many methods in which to convey the information concerning why Animal Rights is so important. ... Incorporating service learning into the Animal Rights course is not the only tool that is essential to gaining a fundamental understanding of the issue of Animal Rights. The student needs to be exposed to the different views that people approach the...

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When it comes to the subject of animal rights there is a never ending debate of what is morally right to do to animals and what actions towards those animals are justified. ... This is only the tip of the iceberg and these questions could go on for pages, but I'm going to touch on and argue on Singers point towards animal rights, which is no doubt supported by PETA, that we have "direct duties to members of other species"(Shaw,p.147). ... Now comes the argument of the morality of eating meat which no doubt touches on the debate of animal rights and has a far less positive outloo...

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Animal Rights: To Test or Not to Test? ... Recently, many animal rights activists have turned their focus to animal experimentation, which has become one of today's largest controversies. Many animal rights activists see their fight against animal experimentation as a simple matter of moral duty, of ethics, or even of religious obligation. ... However, activists argue that animals, as beings, deserve the exact rights that humans receive and are ultimately deserving of respect (20). ... The voice of other anti-experimental animal rights activists shouts the same: "Lab animals are n...

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An animal's value and their status in society has taken a shift since the start of the late 20th century. ... Animal cruelty or subjection of an animal to inappropriate treatments it is counter inductive to humans morality and also shows the degree to which humans can abuse their power. ... It is a moral as well as an ethical issue as such treatment of humans would be a clear violation human rights. To deny animals their due respect is to state that humans have the power to subject those in the animal kingdom not deemed their equal an inferior treatment. ... Humans are abusing their ...

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Animal Rights The problem with testing drugs on animals every year is nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals. ... Drug testing on animals is inaccurate and does not benefit humans or animals at all. ... Fewer animals used per study. 5. ... Animal Rights The problem with testing drugs on animals every year is nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that pr...

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We not only eat, ride, shoot, wear, trap, hunt, and farm animals, but the medical field experiments on over 17 million animals per year. ... As individuals, we each acknowledge certain rights that prevent us from being eaten, worn, or experimented on by other people. What we don't realize " until we really examine our beliefs about animals " is that rights cannot belong exclusively to human beings. ... Such a question begs asking, according to a multitude of animal-rights groups, such as the Pennsylvania-based Trans-Species Unlimited. ... The United States government has also...

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Animal Rights One of the most touchy aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. ... They want an abolition of all experiments on live animals. ... The anti-vivisectionists say we should allow no experiments on animals and the animal utilitarians, or vivisectionists, claim that we can do anything to animals if it is for the ultimate good of humanity. ... Animals, as well as people benefit from new discoveries. ... The animals are observed daily. ...

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Animal Assisted Therapy, or AAT as referred to in recent studies, is a type of therapy involving actions between people and trained animals as a form of treatment. ... Animals are being used in many places and in different circumstances. ... Laura Clark, the Director of Research and Planning for the Council of Children's Rights, has a Master's Degree in Clinical/Community Psychology from UNC- Charlotte in 2002. Clark is the author of "Therapeutic Use of Animals for Mental Health", where she address that animals are beneficial for mental health causes. ... As reported by Cla...

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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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For animal rights activists, like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the answer is no. ... Essentially, PETA is of the opinion that animals and humans should have identical rights. ... While animal rights groups such as PETA advocate abolishing all animal testing that inflicts pain on animals, proponents of testing cite laws and regulations, which minimize pain and discomfort. ... The vice president of the Humans Society of the United States (HSUS), an animal rights group that is nearly as extreme as PETA, has been quoted as saying "the life of an ant and that of my child s...

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Yet the use of animals in safety testing is the main issue in the animal research controversy. ... Many people argue that animal testing hurts the animals and is completely unethical because then we don't see the animals as having any rights. Some animal rights theorists argue that any creature that feels pain is equal to another that feels pain, humans included. Peter Singer, a professor of ethics at Princeton University, is often considered the Father of the animal rights movement, says in his book Animal Liberation, "If humans have basic rights, such as rights to be spared unnecessary ...

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Animal Testing/Experimentation: Why not? ... Moreover, while animal testing improves or advances the life of human beings, animal testing also benefits animals as well. ... Animal rights activists assert that animal testing is essentially cruel. ... The radical animal rights movements have become an increasingly powerful force that threatens the continued discovery and development of new treatments and prevention strategies for a variety of illnesses. ... Animal rights activists made a decision earlier on to make scientific researchers their targets of protest rather than farmers. ...

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MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION Can we justify medical experimentation on animals? ... Research has demonstrated the success of animal experimentation; in some particular cases the discovery was significantly greater than the interest of animal rights. However, legal legislation enacted to protect the rights and welfare of animals vary; what counts as "cruelty to animals" varies from location to location and government to government. ... The reality is animal exploitation is a profitable, yet senseless occurrence. ... The justification for research openly acknowledges the moral worth of an...

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There is no doubting the fact that animals do not have rights in the conventional sense, or in any other sense for that matter. ... Without reasoning, they are unable to have rights and therefore, are not responsible for themselves. ... Singer's main argument in "Animal Liberation" is that we should be equal to any kind of animals. ... In order to argue against Singer and the animal rights activists, Pollan has to research where their argument comes from. ... Pollan uses his narrative to establish a back-and-forth argument between him and the animal rights activists. ...

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There are many implications to consider when questioning the moral status of animals. ... It follows that humans have certain inviolable rights such as the freedom to speech and the freedom to life, but what grants us these rights over that of non-human animals? ... The question then becomes, 'can animals suffer', and if the answer is yes, we can conclude that non-human animals do have moral status. ... " Both Descartes and Harrison hold the opinion that animals are sentient automata, and were committed to the idea that animals lack any self-consciousness. ... This doesn'...

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Animal research has been deemed important for both animal welfare as well as humanity at large. ... Certain pressure groups and animal activists fight for the rights and care for animals. ... Research with Human Subjects History of research on human social behavior has reported multiple instances when human rights and ethical standards have been breached in the name of scientific knowledge. ... Studies like Watson and Rayner (1920) experiment with little Albert, Stanford prison experiment with students (Zimbardo & Cross, 1971) and many more that can be quoted, has compelled responsible to deve...

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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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