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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(Beauchamp par.2) Xenotransplants do not represent the best solution for the current organ shortage crisis, due to the fact that, there is risk of introducing new viruses into the human population, the animal organs are unable to sustain the human body and there are ethical concerns pertaining to animal rights. ... It is impossible to have completely pathogen-free animals. ... (Xenotransplants par.2) Thirdly, there is an ethical issue that is of concern regarding animal rights. ... The animals had not been able to turn and lie down naturally. ... However, these animals are thought as not ...

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However, others would argue that animal rights are violated when doing research and testing on animals. ... It has been successfully carried out for years on many species of animals. ... Second, adult DNA cloning is a technique that produces a copy of an existing animal; it involves removing the DNA from an embryo and replacing it with the DNA from an adult animal. Then, the embryo is allowed to develop into a new animal with the same DNA as the donor. ... Adult DNA cloning has many positive aspects to it; many species of extinct animals can be cloned if their functional DNA is found, and also...

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Reproductive cloning is how animals are cloned today. ... Others replicated his experiment with a variety of animal. ... Some think that they may have fewer rights than what normal humans have. ... Cloning of animals seems to be okay by me. A few aspects that I can think of are being able to bring the population of endangered animals up. ...

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Issues of whether the spare clone will have the same rights as the genetic donor are debatable. ... Certain gay rights advocates are pushing the idea of cloning as a means of preserving homosexuality in a general population, which might otherwise decide to eliminate it. Under the flag of defending reproductive rights, cloning has been recognized as giving women complete control over reproduction, possibly eliminating the need for men all together (Manning 1997). ... If human cloning were allowed before sufficient animal studies were undertaken, there is great risk to the clones and the re...

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Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Heath Inspection Services, which all have jurisdiction for monitoring and regulating the development, testing, and release of genetically modified plants and plant products. ... In 1991 and 1992 the USA based biotechnology company Agracetus was granted two patents describing a way to insert genetic material into cotton plants which grants the company rights to all genetically engineered cotton. ... Some people argue that the ownership of transgenic organisms is morally wrong on the basis that they are the shared heritage of everyone on earth...

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(LeVay/ Hamer 22) The first significant observation of sexual dimorphism performed in an animal laboratory. ... (LeVay/Hamer 23) Animal studies make available a good deal of evidence for biological basis of disease, but in this case, sexual orientation. ...

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(LeVay/ Hamer 22) The first significant observation of sexual dimorphism performed in an animal laboratory. ... (LeVay/Hamer 23) Animal studies make available a good deal of evidence for biological basis of disease, but in this case, sexual orientation. ...

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Again, the issue of whether the child is fully human with all the same rights is at issue. ... Under the flag of defending reproductive rights, certain gay rights advocates are pushing the idea of cloning as a means of preserving homosexuality in a general population which might otherwise decide to eliminate it. ...

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Another may argue that humans have been interfering with evolution since the dawn of agriculture, with the development of plant and animal breeding, while genetic engineering is just a sophisticated way of doing something particularly ancient. ... There are arguments on each side and still more arising in the areas of animal rights, patenting, and environmental and ecosystem concerns. ...

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Biotechnology is used every day to change life, as we know it. In fact, people do not realize that early humans used biotechnology 10,000 years ago. Early humans were producing beer, wine, bread, and yogurt by means of fermentation. Biotechnology is any technique that uses organisms or their product...

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