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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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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My love for animals has been very strong since I was a child. ... A lot of animals have medical needs just as humans do. ... Animals and the people who give them medical care are worth a million dollars for all that they do to help animals and their owners. ... There is also job shadowing and internships where the students experience working in a shelter, animal clinic, or farm which is similar to what people doctors have to do. ... An animal attack from the right animal can do a lot of damage and may kill you. ...

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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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Condescension to animals that are pets and people's companions, which, normally, has too little to do with taking insightful care of them, represents, most probably, one of the best possible outcomes of human and animal relations. Various aspects of ethical issues arising from people's responsibility to animals are discussed nowadays. These discussions address the highly sensitive and challenging issues of hunting wild animals, breeding farm animals to be used as food, and carrying out experiments on animals. ... Great amounts of chickens and other farm animals should be killed every...

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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 In our society today many people share a very close relationship with other non-human animals. ... I do believe that some animals need to eat other animals in order to survive. For some animals this is their reason to exist. There are hundreds of species of animals that need to feed off of other animals in order to survive. ... Anyone who mistreats any animal, whether they be a household pet or a farm animal should have to face much more severe consequences than exist in our legal system today. ...

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In the essay "All Animals Are Equal...," Peter Singer argues the point that animals and humans should be granted "equal consideration" (29). ... Animals are kept on "factory farms", where their short lives are spent in unnatural, confined quarters. ... Since humans are linked to animals it would be hard to make changes in order to protect animals better. ... Singer has valid points saying animals can suffer just as humans can, but it is human nature to kill animals and use animals as a source of food. ... With humans being one of the predators of animals, humans kept the animal population...

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Equality and Animals Are all people created equal? ... Are humans different than animals? ... Of the various objections about the equality of animals under the equal considerations principle, I feel that the most important one questions why humans shouldn't eat animals, if animals eat each other. ... Since we do not hunt and instead we mass produce domestic animals in factory farms, this is not "survival of he fittest". ... Even though it might be natural for animals to eat each other and for us to eat animals, it does not mean that it is right. ...

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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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Eating meat is harmful to the animals too. ... If you think these animals get it bad, I won't even mention some of the videos I've seen of animals that are raised for fur. ... Another reason why we make it okay to eat animals is because we feel that animals don't have any rights, including the right to live. Why do humans have rights that animals don't? ... It would all make sense if animals could not suffer. ...

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Genetic Engineering Imagine a world where people didn't have to donate organs anymore or if vegetables were so big and the plant produced so much that many farms wouldn't need to be utilized anymore. ... To what extent should genetic engineering be applied to animals? ... Few experts think that sheep or other farm animals would be the only animals to be cloned (Kolata 612). ... According to Justin Gillis in his story "Keeping Them Down on the Farm" he believes that genetically manipulated and cloned cows, sheep, and other animals can be of great benefit to humans. ... Animals ...

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These chemicals are a type of hormone that induces rapid growth upon the animal that is exposed to it. ... Even though fat deposition could be acquired at a young age, by the time the animal aged, a large portion of the livestock needed to be fed 23% more feed than the other animals (MN.S, 2003). ... Over the years corporate cattle farms have been putting antibiotics into the feed so that food-borne illnesses would be prevented; this medicine is poured into the feed by large amounts. ... In that time the industries continued to overuse antibiotics in healthy animals. ... That limited amount of...

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There are many positive uses for animal and human cloning. First for animal cloning we could grow human organs that we could use for transplant. ... Another use of animal cloning would be done by inserting a human gene into a cell and then performing nuclear transplantation we could get animal that is born with factor IX. ... Everything that has a good side to it has a bad including animal and human cloning. ... We would become just like animals, a breeding farm of humans that are genetically healthier, more intelligent, and could even be designed to fight in wars or be used for slavery ("...

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Currently, scientists are working on many projects, such as tissue engineering and cloning of animals. ... Scientists have been cloning animals and insects since 1967, the year in which John P. ... These cells are formed from stem cells extracted from a person or animal's blood. ... Scientists are also discussing tissue engineered food to replace the slaughtering of farm animals. ...

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By doing so he has given reason to the different strata of the forest, the yearly wild fires, and how the animals that called this area home interacted with the land to produce the current outcome. ... He then asks us to change our views on community to include soils, water, plants, and animals. ... Species of animals, like tiny birds, and areas of land like deserts and marshes hold no apparent economic value to us, which makes them candidates to be destroyed. ... That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve water and waste the ranges; you cannot build the f...

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It is during this time period that man learned to farm and raise livestock, evidently saving time and energy, allowing for contemplation and recreational activities. ... Though physiology only rose to prominence during Ancient Greek times, one could infer that Neolithic Man used a more primitive form of physiology to assign roles when he had started domesticating animals. ... Man on the other hand had little himself to offer, he is not strong enough to carry other animals, his body hair is sufficient only for keeping himself warm, and woman produces only enough milk to feed her own offspring. ...

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