Animal Experimentation Animal experimentation is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Millions of animals are used annually in laboratories to test in household products‚ medicine‚ make up‚ food additives‚ weaponry‚ and psychological experiments. Animal experimentation began with the Greeks in the third and fourth century BC with their curiosity of human bodily functions. Aristotle and Erasistratus were one of the first people to use animals for experiments. Galen‚ was Greek physician‚ was
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Animal testing‚ also known as animal experimentation‚ animal research‚ and in vivo testing‚ is the use of non-human animals in experiments (although some research about animals involves only natural behaviors or pure observation‚ such as a mouse running a maze or field studies of chimp troops). The research is conducted inside universities‚ medical schools‚ pharmaceutical companies‚ farms‚ defense establishments‚ and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to industry.[1] It includes
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Animal Experimentation has Alternatives Every day around the world‚ animals are fighting for their lives. They are being mutilated and confined to tiny cages so we can use them. They are being burned‚ blinded‚ poisoned‚ and cut up alive just for science. They are electrocuted and strangled just so people can wear makeup. The fact that animal testing can be done in other ways makes this suffering pointless. Scientists should use alternative testing instead of harming animals. Animals are abused
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Logic: Peter Singer NAME PHI 103‚ Information Logic Instructor: NAME DATE Logic: Peter Singer An Evaluation of Singer Peter Singer questions our conception of equality as it relates to the human species and other animal species. He fundamentally argues that‚ “The principle of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat humans.” The statement‚ revealing Singer’s essential argument‚ also comprises
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Professor T. Edwards The Singer Solution to World Poverty In the Singer solution‚ Peter Singer talks about how it is wrong to live in luxury and watch someone else struggle for the basic things to survive. He argues that instead of going out spending money on necessities‚ help someone. He also tries to prove a point where as if you have something valuable to you‚ would you risk savings? Or would you help an innocent person in need? With this study I agree with Singer‚ because in reality no necessity
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self enjoyment: concert tickets‚ iPhones‚ Jordans‚ Pizza ? If you answered “yes” to any of the above‚ then Peter Singer‚ utilitarian moral philosopher‚ would equate your actions to letting “a runaway train hurtle towards an unsuspecting child” (Singer 4). Though the prospect of not donating our extra funds to charities sounds selfish and egocentric. We are not monsters. In a sense‚ Singer is correct. Currently‚ every person who lives in an affluent country has the ability to donate to charity.
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that money? According to Peter Singer‚ you don’t really have any choice because you’re “morally obligated” to donate far more resources to famine relief and similar causes than what you currently think is enough‚ but without sacrificing anything of equivalent moral importance. In this paper I will analyze this argument and try to show that Singer’s conclusions are correct‚ yet they are not quite as correct as he believes they are. To do so‚ I will try to show that Singer is wrong to think that we
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victims of poverty”‚ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This fact indicates how poverty is an issue that needs more attention because of it’s significant impact on the people in the world. Peter Singer‚ an Australian humanist and philosopher‚ addresses the dilemma of poverty world-wide in his essay‚ The Singer Solution to Poverty. Singer argues how it is wrong for an individual to live well without giving substantial amounts of money to help people who are hungry‚ malnourished‚ and dying from easily treatable
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The lingering presence of guilt when most folks are presented with a dish that has formed from the basis of an animal seems to have only increased with the mounting knowledge of how a large number of animals are treated‚ whether it is for product testing or for human consumption. The expectation that animals‚ especially those raised in a slaughterhouses‚ live a tranquil‚ cruelty-free life would seem a bit far fetched to me‚ yet it is difficult to deny that the deplorable conditions shown in exploitation
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There are many arguments of whether or not animal experimentation is ethical. Animal experimentation is necessary for research of medicine. However‚ it is not ethical when it comes to entertainment and education purposes. Humans are not benefiting in any way when it comes to putting animals in zoos‚ using them in circuses‚ and dissecting them in high schools. Many animal rights activists may argue that animal experimentation for medicine research is wrong. I agree that high school students should
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