An animal's value and their status in society has taken a shift since the start of the late 20th century. ... Animal cruelty or subjection of an animal to inappropriate treatments it is counter inductive to humans morality and also shows the degree to which humans can abuse their power. ... It is a moral as well as an ethical issue as such treatment of humans would be a clear violation human rights. To deny animals their due respect is to state that humans have the power to subject those in the animal kingdom not deemed their equal an inferior treatment. ... Humans are abusing their ...

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MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION Can we justify medical experimentation on animals? ... Research has demonstrated the success of animal experimentation; in some particular cases the discovery was significantly greater than the interest of animal rights. However, legal legislation enacted to protect the rights and welfare of animals vary; what counts as "cruelty to animals" varies from location to location and government to government. ... The reality is animal exploitation is a profitable, yet senseless occurrence. ... The justification for research openly acknowledges the moral worth of an...

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Utilitarianism defends animal rights as well but there is an issue in solving if a human or non-human being would feel more pain, because we all have different senses. ... People wouldn't be so egoistic and would help others more, and last but not least treat animals well with equal rights. Peter Singer extends utilitarianism to animal equality rights. ... P.Singer explained and extended utilitarianism very well to animal rights, but even if everything sounds good on paper it isn't always good in practice. ... I believe that there is no chance of changing the nowadays meat industry ...

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Animal Rights The view of animal welfare claims that animals have some moral status, but it is a lesser moral status than a human being possess. ... Because the have moral status, the animal welfare view claims that it is immoral to cause animals to suffer. Causing needless animal suffering is wrong although some animal suffering is permitted. ... The last two premises say that many nonhuman animals have some moral status and using nonhuman animals for food and research is morally acceptable if it is done humanely. Along with approvals of animal welfare, there are also some objections...

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Only the human animal can do this and this gives us real freedom. ... So we elect in a democracy a person to govern us and protect our rights. ... If we did not have rules, we would be no different than animals in a jungle. ...

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In terms of food supply, many are against the idea of genetically creating animals for "wholesale slaughter" for human consumption. ( David Koepsell) Genetically producing animals raises the ethical concerns of creating animals specifically for human food consumption. ... Other ethical principles of concern with genetic engineering include how this scientific field will affect "the distribution of social goods as well as political rights" (David Koepseel). ... Scientist are genetically cloning certain animals for meat production and these animals are being genetically modif...

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The utilitarianism theory also argues that people can be changed into animals by promising them some allowances that make them happy in order to disturb the happiness of the society (Rachels and Stuart, 2012). John mills strongly advocates for the need to defend human dignity and rights by not causing pain and suffering through terrorism, hence promoting the common good of the society as advocated in his philosophical theory. ...

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And according to Foner, 'Far more important than individual anatomy were kinship ties, the ability to live up to widely understood ideas of appropriate behavior. ' Mary Rowlandson, as a captive and slavery, was able to maintain her basic human rights like chastity because the Indian society requires its members to have appropriate behavior. ... 'Spiritual power, they believe, suffused the world, and sacred spirits could be found in all kinds of living and inanimate things- animals, plants, trees, water and wind- and idea known as "animism" '. ...

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