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12 April 2013 Animal rights are benefits that humans give to animals‚ including the right of protection from user and abuse by people. Do you agree or disagree? For decades‚ the question “Do animals have rights?” has been examined from many different angles. People contend that animals do or do not have rights based on several factors‚ including whether animals can learn‚ can use language‚ are conscious‚ are able to suffer‚ and are ethical beings. Whether and which animals have rights depends
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Animal testing Aristotle and Erasistratus were the first two early Greek physician-scientist performed experiments on living animals. In 1859‚ Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiology. Animal testing plays a large important role in pharmaceutical and medical advances‚ but many question the mortality of such use of the animal’s life. More than 100 million aninals are used for testing every
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December‚ 2012 Animal Experimentation Is it wrong to experiment on animals for our own benefit? Many may disagree and believe its immoral and shouldnt be done. Science and manufacturing need animal experimentation to prevent harm to humans because it helps to develope cures for disease and to save humans from experimentation. Animal rights activist oppose the use of animals for medical research arguing that it’s cruel and immoral. The truth is some of the animals dont even suffer. Many
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once argued that‚ “animals are not sentient- they are machines‚ like mechanical clocks‚ devoid of feelings and incapable of experiencing pleasure or pain” (Vaughn). Today‚ unlike Descartes‚ most people believe that animals are intrinsically or instrumentally valuable‚ also‚ whether they have or deserve any rights. Defining what cruelty is has been very subjective. To some people. An animal is just property and they can beat it around as much as they want‚ to others‚ animals are part of their family
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of Animal Cruelty” which focuses on human-animal interaction and more specifically how humans are violent towards members of the animal kingdom. He expresses his concern that sociologists have ignored how animals impact our society. He points out that cruelty isn’t an issue that generally stands alone in sociology; it is usually studied because of its correlation with human violence. It is considered in how it affects humans; but never looked at separately or at the true victims in animal cruelty
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more than 115 million animals worldwide are used in laboratory experiments every year (Humane Society International‚ 2010). Animals‚ from the fruit fly to the mouse‚ are widely used in scientific research. Research is critical for the advancement of medicine‚ leading to increased chances of survival from diseases and improved strategies to prevent them. Without animal experiments‚ transplants‚ diseases‚ cancer‚ and vaccines would not have been advanced. The use of animals can be inevitable‚ particularly
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ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION There has been a controversy between animal rights supporters and scientists about whether it is right to use animals in experimental research. Also‚ it is very debatable whether using animals for such research results in finding a cure for diseases. From my point of view‚ if there are no other alternatives‚ and if it is possible that this will contribute to science‚ animals may be used for experimental research. Although the animal rights activists claim that people and
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killed in labs right now because Animal testing is legal. Where do the animals come from that they do these terrible things? The ASPCA wrote in a 2012 article that most of the time Scientists just buy them from respectable dealers. There are two types of dealer’s type A‚ and Type B. Type A dealers can only sell animals that they have bred. Class B licensed dealers can also sell animals that they got without breeding them. Most of the time‚ class B dealers get their animals from respectable places‚ but
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In centuries ago‚ there were various types of animal species that lived in this world but these species cannot be found for the meantime and forever. There are many efforts had been done in order to preserve endangered species but the numbers of endangered species are still increase rapidly. However‚ there were still numbers of selfish people that did not even concern about the animal species that disappeared. Animal extinction can be defined as animal species no longer stay in the earth as it already
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