English 10 March 5‚ 2014 Is Animal Experimentation Necessary and Moral? Background Knowing the effectiveness of medical treatments‚ the toxicity of pharmaceuticals‚ and the safety of products for human use are possible because many products are first tested on animals. Animal experimentation has passionate supporters and detractors. Animal testing has been around since 500 B.C.‚ when famous physicians such as Aristotle and Herophilus were experimenting on animals to discover the functions of
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Animal experimentation is a big part of medical progress. Opponents of animal testing point out the amount of animals used and the different types of animals used but if you look at it‚ it’s all for a good reason. Animal experimenters don’t do this just to do it. It’s for a purpose. There are thousands upon thousands of medical situations that couldn’t have been done without animal experimenting. Animal suffering is pointed out but for the most part animals go without feeling any pain. Animal experimentation
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Animal experimentation is cruel and leads to the needless suffering and death of millions of animals. Public support for animal testing has been in steady decline since the 1950s. In 1949‚ the public support percentage was over 90 percent but in 2013 it declined to 57 percent (Ericson). According to Procon.org 95 percent of animals are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act. Also‚ Procon.org says 94 percent of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human trials. An estimated 26 million animals are
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Animal Experimentation: Unethical According to Utilitarianism Introduction: One of the most debated ethical issues is Animal Rights. Animals are so much a part of our lives and world that it is impossible to ignore the ethical issues we are faced with pertaining to the treatment of animals. What is difficult about these issues is that although animals have many similar attributes as humans they lack the developed brain function that humans have. Although many animals can feel pain‚ experience
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diseases and illnesses‚ or even regular medicine doctors prescribe. But there are many that do. They use animals to test what will work‚ and what will not
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For many years‚ animals have been used in research both in the scientific and medical fields. In order to introduce new drugs into the market‚ they have to be tested first on animals in order to ascertain whether they are effective or not. Animal experimentation in this context defines the use of non-humans‚ mostly animals‚ to test new drugs and consumer goods such as cosmetics‚ pesticides‚ herbicides‚ food additives‚ among others (Taylor 120). Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions have
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Should Animal experimentation be permitted? Throughout history‚ animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However‚ what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people seem to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live‚ and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques
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Animal Experimentation: Good or Bad? The controversy of animal experimentation in the cosmetics industry is one that was swept the globe and caused for a dispute of the morality of using animals to perceive the safety of certain products. While some people argue that new test animal experimentation is not always not always accurate‚ others provide evidence in which may deem animal testing unreliable. The effects of animal experimentation are clearly visible in the death rate of animals that
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Explain the Preference Utilitarianism of Peter Singer Preference Utilitarianism is based on the idea that a good action is one that maximises the preferences of all involved so that my own want‚ needs and desires cannot apply to everyone. Utilitarianism is a teleological or consequentialist approach to ethics‚ which means that the action’s outcome is looked at. It is the greatest happiness principle. It is the consequences of an action which judge whether it is good or bad. Preference Utilitarianism
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In one of Peter Singer’s arguments defending animals rights he counter argues against Thomas Taylor a philosopher who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes which was a counterargument against Mary Wollstonecraft (Singer‚ 1). In Singer’s reply to Taylor he says that one might reply by saying the case for equality between men and women cannot be given to non-human animals (Singer‚ 2). To summarize this argument‚ Singer says that women are just as intelligent and capable of voting as men so they
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