Animal Rights Research Paper

We have evolved from being a weak and foolish species that struggled to obtain any type of animal meat, into a species that is now capable of getting meat by simply driving to a nearby grocery store. As the years have passed by humans have assumed the positions as the dominant race on planet Earth. With this authority we are faced with many moral and ethical issues in which we are responsible for discussing with the entire human population. The moral issue we will be focusing on is whether it is our obligation as humans to expand the circle of morality to include nonhumans. This statement simply asks us to what extent will we allow for animal to have rights, are we obligated to accept nonhuman animals to be on the same level as we are. I myself
It is my belief that animals are able to experience basic emotions such as joy, happiness, sadness, grief and especially fear. Animals are very intelligent beings that are aware of what in going on around them. Many would argue that if animals are so aware why do they allow for humans to fed them harmful things or take them to terrible places for them to be killed. The answer to that is simple, animals trust us to fed them safe things and take them to safe places. They are like children, aware yet they do not know all the dangers of trusting everyone. Many people including scientists do not want to admit or declare to the world that animals can perceive emotions and are conscious of the world around them because doing so would arise much dispute surrounding the topic of animal rights. Scientists have conducted over 2,500 studies that help prove that animals experience pain and emotions, though aware that if they are to come out with truth all industries that are involved in the harming of animals would be hurt economically by consumers refusing to purchases products. I myself believe that animals should have rights in the sense that they are protected for inhumane acts upon them. For animals to have human rights like you and I is naive to even consider, they will alway be a main source of food. Another possibility as to why we have yet to expand the circle
I understand that animal testing has in the past helped advance our knowledge in medicine, but out of the hundreds of experiments conducted on millions of animals how many have actually been successful? It is my belief that the reaction an animal’s body may have for a particular drug may differ from a human’s reaction making them poor test subjects. Evidence that helps prove my statement would be the incident were in 1999 the FDA had approved of drug used for arthritis by the name of Vioxx, after it had been tested on monkeys and had passed all animal trials. In 2004 there was a recall for the drug after having found that it doubled the risk of heart attacks and death, along with 38,000 reported deaths caused by the drug. This incident has now come to be known as the worst drug disaster in history. Basing a drug’s safety for humans on whether or not it passes animal trials is not logical nor smart, that is why we also have human trials. Yes, human trials, no matter how many animals are tested on, there will always be the first human to test the safety of the drug before the FDA approves. During human trials 95% of drugs that were established as safe on animals fail when used on humans. When will scientist and humans finally admit that human bodies are far more complex than animals and that experimenting on them is not helping us anymore. I say not