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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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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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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All humans have basic moral rights as autonomous moral agents...whereas no non-human can warrant such status" . It appears an apparent obstacle for speciesism to be taken seriously is either somehow to show its parallel with racism and sexism, or to demonstrate different species as also having "rights as autonomous moral agents". Pluhar lists some of the prominent objections to speciesism being equated with other forms of bigotry and they all come down to one of two factors; either a simple bigotry which cannot be adequately defended apart from religious appeal that humans are innately superio...

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His work as a philosopher is more well-known than his works as an Animal Rights Activist, Children's Activist, Civil Rights Activist, Environmental Activist, Women's Rights Activist, Anti-War Activist, or an academic author (SP 5). ... Singer's most controversial book, "Practical Ethics," evaluates the ethical foundations of sex discrimination, animal welfare, foreign aid, and abortion. ... Most of Singer's works involves animals, abortions, or human nature, or foreign aid. ...

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