Estimates in animal rights literature range from twenty to seventy million. ... The appearance of animal rights and animal liberation groups in the 1970s precipitated a drastic change in the arguments about using animals in research. ... The biggest concern that those opposing animal testing have is the animals" rights. They feel humans take away the animals" rights when they are included in research. ... They feel strongly that it is neither morally justified or tolerable, and that it is a violation of the animals" rights (Day, 1994). ...

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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every year is nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals.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every year is nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that pr...

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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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Their well financed anti-research disinformation campaign is not the only weapon used by animal rights activists. The more extreme animal rights activists have used tactics of intimidation and terrorism, for example: April 26,1997, activists were arrested when they tried to force their way into Yerkes Regional Primate center during a protest. ... The animals used in those labs were all for ideal laboratory animal research. ... Without animal research humans and animals would still be dying or totally wiped out from these diseases. ... But over the years animals have been tortured. ...

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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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There is one significant reason for this unwillingness by some to stand up for the rights of our fellow inhabitants of this planet, personal convenience. ... Mankind often fails to give animals the respect and rights they deserve, they are treated as lifeless, unfeeling scientific specimens and items that we may manipulate at our own convenience and for vanity's sake. ... These tests continue until half of the test animals die. ... As a result of pressures from animal advocacy groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and AAVS (American...

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A great amount of information that is found by animal testing is useless, a waste of money, time, and lives of innocent animals. ... ("Animal Experimentation" 2). ... (Thacher, Non-Animal tests" 4 ). ... ("Animal Experimentation" 2). ... Philip Warner director of the Menopause Institute of Northern California stated, "I am not an animal-rights person. ...

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