Most factory farms have animals living in horrifying conditions, and are restrained in dark over crowded buildings. ... Factory farms give animals hormones and antibiotics to help with productivity. ... Other forms of animal cruelty are puppy mills, and factory farms keeping chickens and cows housed all day, animals hoarding (when people try to keep to many animals that they cannot take care of at one time). ... PCIFAP (Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production) expert former USDA Secretary Dan Glickman, conducted "A comprehensive, fact-based and balanced examination of key aspect...

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Animal experimentation is unreliable to humans. ... Therefore, it is impossible to find an animal with the same characteristics of a human (Thomas, Replacing Animals). ... In the United States, animal testing is regulated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Nevertheless, AWA excludes 95% of animals used in research; mice, rats, farm animals, and cold blooded animals, like fish and reptiles. ... The animals often go crazy and even rip their hair off (Budkie, The Facts About Animal Experimentation). ...

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Like humans, farm animals are sentient beings capable of feeling pleasure, pain, stress, frustration, and even fear. ... I am personally a huge animal lover, I don't know about most people but it is hard to sit back and watch what these factory farms do to the animals they have. "Birds make up 9 out of the 10 billion farm animals killed each year in the U.S" (Vegucated- the movie"). ... These farms raise animal in tight confinement, feed them grain that fattens them unnaturally so these companies can raise as many animals as possible. ... Factory farming is dangerous, threa...

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If a farm animal lived a happy life but was then killed for food, does that make it better than a factory farm? ... Ultimately, I don't agree with how factory farms are managed and I don't agree with corporate experiments on animals for better consumer products, but I do agree with eating meat for a balanced diet and I do agree with medical animal testing. ... (Www.humanesociety.org) Although I find these numbers disgusting I do still believe in Hares view that the central issue is not whether it's moral to kill animals, but how many animals we ought to cause there to be &ndas...

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Animal rights seek to guarantee animals with a sense of entitlement. ... In this manner, both human beings and animals are all animals (Ryder, 2004). ... Animal rights will ensure that animal farming is conducted in a manner that reduces the suffering of animals. ... The consumption of animal meat is a practice central to the animal rights debate. With regard to animal suffering, most animals are transported a...

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Of course animal activists focus on this topic because animals are constantly being abused. ... One of the basic ways to get fur is through a Fur Farm. Fur Farm methods of killing animals include suffocation, electrocution, gas and poison (PETA, All About Fur). ... The animals do endure mental and physical stress along with the constant torture some may under go during their time at the Fur Farms. ... Not only do the animals being hunted suffer but many times the animals used for the hunt suffer too. ...

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As an animal rights proponent, my commitment is to stand firm against the unjust cruelty and inhumane treatment of all animals. ... (Schoen 19) In modern day, the abuse of food animals or farm animals has recently become an issue not only with animal rights activists, but also with modern society. Many farm animals used in the production of food, and factory food products go through horrendous and inhumane treatment. ... A cow's life span on the dairy farm is about five years old, whereas her natural life span would have been around 20 years. ... Humans, unlike other animals, are ...

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The issue of whether animals have sense perception (are sentient) is important for those who use animals in research. ... Some of the opponents of animal experimentation argue that some or all types of animal research are not scientifically valid. ... PETA dispatches undercover investigators to laboratories, slaughterhouses and farms. ... The difference in physical make up of humans to animals should be enough to warrant not using animals in experimentation. ... It is not enough that animal experimentation is harmful or even fatal to animals; the human species is now at risk from the anima...

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ANIMAL RIGHTS Do all animals have the same rights as humans? ... From horses pulling carriages and farm equipment, to dogs herding sheep, animals have helped to build lives and support families. ... For example, many animal rights activists believe that animals have the same legal and moral rights that humans do. ... In wasn't until 1775, that Peter Singer brought animal rights in the world light with his book "Animal Liberation." ... Leahy's view on animals as food is very just. ...

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We are systematically cutting down the last forest that provides their shelter to farm cattle; we dump toxic chemicals and sewage into the waters in which they live; we wear the tusks of the last few of their species on our arms, and we pour cosmetic products into their eyes, rectums or vaginas to determine the harmful effects they might cause on humans, even though the physiological differentiation between humans and the animals they use is durastic. ... These tests continue until half of the test animals die. ... While animals still continue to be violated in laboratories, a ...

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