delightful image right? “An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments‚ determine the toxicity of medications‚ check the safety of products destined for human use‚ and other biomedical‚ commercial‚ and health care uses” (ProCon 1). It is unfair to sentence so many animals to life in a laboratory cage and to cause
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16‚ 2013 Animals Are People in Fur Coats The Story of My Search You are trapped in a cage with many strangers pressing against you‚ pleading and crying. Suddenly‚ you see a man come to the cage and open it‚ dragging a girl out. She tries to fight and you hear a sickening thump as the man slams his foot into her face. The girl‚ whose face is now a bloody and deformed mess‚ is then skinned alive by the man‚ her shrill screams filling the room. This is what it feels like to be an animal in a fur
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Deanda Jones The Humane Treatment of Animals vs. Factory Farms The first questions we have to ask ourselves; do animals have rights‚ do they have feelings‚ do they feel pain‚ do they need as we do? To find the answer‚ one needs merely to think back on empirical data if one has ever owned or been around an animal‚ a dog or a cat‚ or horses or farm animals. Take for instance a mother cat. When a mother has kittens‚ she looks for a sheltered‚ warm‚ safe place to do so. When they
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PETA is one of the most popular interest groups there is today. With their aim to benefit animals and their lives‚ they are thoroughly involved with events that have to do with such. In a USNEWS article‚ it states that PETA’s next aim‚ as of December 2014‚ is to have elephant free circuses. It started with more than one hundred people dressed in all gray laying down on the U.S. Capitol lawn in the shape of an elephant. They did so to attempt to protest inhumane treatment of the animal. Their aim
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Howell Dr. Amico English comp 2 11-7-14 Animal testing There is a long history of experimentation on animals‚ especially in the medical and cosmetic professions. Many people argue that humanity and science would not be where anywhere near where it is today if it were not for animal experimentation However‚ with advancements in medical and scientific technology‚ animal testing is no longer a defensible practice. It is no longer cost effective to test on animals and it also is morally wrong to force
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Topic: The Ethical Treatment of Animals Moral reasoning using Utilitarian and Rights-Based ethics Utilitarianism values equality of all interest parties. It is on the principle that when making a decision‚ thorough consideration on the consequent cost and benefit must be made‚ and it is on the basis of impartial consideration of all related interest parties that the final decision should be made. Rights-based ethics‚ however‚ value the right of individuals. It is more like individualism. It is
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very interesting article in magazine about society’s treatment of the homeless people in Latvia. There are different opinions in society about how should the homeless people be treated. Some people think that there is no homelessness tolerated in normal society. But the problem is that there are people who think to homelessness as the normal lifestyle and can not imagine themselves living in different and better conditions. Those homeless people have voluntarily chosen this kind of lifestyle as the
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10/18/2011 Philosophy 235 The Ethical Implications of Involuntary Treatment for Substance Abuse Every time health professionals claim to speak for the rights of others many questions arise within the bioethical community. Although altruism is a motivating mechanism of selfless care for others‚ it may have a dark side. Involuntary treatment for alcohol and drug abuse is a controversial tool used in medical care. The question of whether or not such treatment can be applied has been an unresolvable
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PETA Advertisement Today in our society‚ the attention towards vegetarianism and animal abuse is becoming very popular. Many organizations around the world are trying to send messages out to the public to reveal the truth behind the horrific things animals go through. This one particular organization named PETA‚ People for Ethical Treatment of Animals‚ created an image to persuade people to consider the vegetarian lifestyle‚ to treat animals as equals‚ as well as to visually
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Animal Rights and Ethical Theories Umajesty Allah PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor: Hai Nguyen September 7‚ 2014 Human Rights and Philosophical Theories We live in a society where many people fight for rights of their specific groups. Women’s rights‚ African American’s rights‚ and rights for handicapped people are just a few examples. Now these are all groups‚ where people verbally fight for their groups‚ but what about animal rights? Animals cannot speak or communicate
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