Animal Cruelty
In the developed human run world, the use of animals has become a debated issue. Animals are often seen as inferior to humans because of their lack of achievements in industry and technology. But, most people can acknowledge that animals can offer companionship and love. Humans have built societies with advancements in entertainment and medicine. So, what is the role of animals today? Some animals are trained and used in the entertainment industry. Other animals are used in medical experiments. And of course, domesticated animals are are kept as housepets- “man’s best friend” after all. However, in all of the aforementioned roles of animals there is always the risk of animal cruelty. It would seem that all people would oppose animal cruelty, but that is not always the case. At what point should the line be drawn: can mice be harmed but are dogs off limits? The ethics behind the use
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There is no one solution to the use of animal experimentation, because the issue is complex. Animal experimentation provides humans with valuable, life-saving medical knowledge in some cases, but it can also be an outlet for animal cruelty. So, the best way to deal with this issue is to pass legislation that is just as complex as the issue itself. A law in New Zealand and Sweden is good example of this. Both these countries passed a law that requires research institutions to obtain a permit and prove that their research would be beneficial to chimpanzees if they wished to experiment on them. This law is very thorough; the researchers have a hard process to go to and if they do obtain the permit, then their work will do good for chimpanzees. Animals should not be seen as toys to use but as alive resources. More legislation needs to be enacted like this so that animal experimentation is limited, animals are helped, and only the highest quality of research is
A popular view in the 1900s was that some animals were good because they contributed to overall pleasure and well-being, whilst others were harmful because they perceived them as dangers to one's well-being. Animals may bring people together in a variety of ways. The most basic example is when people are drawn to a pet being walked by a stranger and feel it safe and easy to strike up a conversation because of the presence of the animal[9]. Animals in a more complicated way, form human societies by becoming the focus of shared concern and interest. With this being said many species were at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation.
As the human, we stand at the top of the food chain. Thus, we can do whatever we want. We start to use animals to improve our lives. For example, we use animals’ furs to keep us warm in winter. Unfortunately, at the beginning of this cruel thing happens, the public just treat it as the luxury business since it is so expensive and not everyone can own it.
Chimpanzee research is a growing awareness in the world with many countries banning it and arguing that experimenting on these animals is flat out wrong. Chimpanzee research laboratories are used to conduct invasive experiments to test drugs on chimpanzees, this trend of using chimpanzees for research started in the nineteen twenties. During this time, hunters would capture baby chimpanzees and then kill any other chimps trying to protect the babies. Then, the babies are shipped to laboratories and are tested on for around a year. The United States is the last large scale user of chimpanzee research which has lead to scientific breakthroughs in the last century.
Alejandra Jimenez Ms. Sickler English 10 January 26, 2018 Animal Cruelty Animal Cruelty, also known as animal abuse, is the deliberate act of violence towards animals. It has been reported that animal abuse can lead to domestic abuse. Animal cruelty is linked to an increase in both violence and crime. Animals used for entertainment and gaming purposes are forced to partake in events and actions.
Experimenting on animals is not an issue that blossomed recently, it has been going on for years. Most of the new discoveries whether they are related to cosmetics or medicine or even household products have been due to the research on animals. The question should be: “why should animals suffer for something that humans need?” However, is everyone okay with that, or are people objecting the process of experimenting on animals? According to The Guardian, the people’s opposition to this torture has been growing over the years.
In 2002, The Animal Welfare Act by the USDA was amended and excluded these animals from the Act’s definition of ‘Animal’, thereby excluding them from protection. When mice and rats consist of more than 90% of all animal research this is understandably concerning because the amendment has yet to be updated as of 2017 (Vandamme, T.F.). However, the manual developed by the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) and the protocol developed by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) work in tandem to ensure that not only the application for grants regarding the research is ethically sound for the treatment of the animals, but that the actual facilities in use live up to specific standards as well. They may not be protected by the act, but the IACUC routinely checks these facilities to make sure they meet all the requirements before, during, and after
Animal Cruelty Have you ever wondered how much atrocious animal treatments are occurring around the world? The average number of animal abuse cases reported in the media each year is 1,920 according to a study conducted this year by Statistic Brain Research Institute. Moreover, a lot of animals struggle around the globe because they are often beaten, neglected and hunted, which forces them to fight for survival. Helpless animals continue to be exploited by humans and are still constantly being robbed of their lives. Thus, animal cruelty is the killing, exploiting and neglecting the needs of animals that are causing extinction and nonessential suffering.
Why is it acceptable to place animals through painful procedures and have them suffer just to benefit our own needs, when it would be frowned upon if we were to execute the same procedure on another human being. Some believe “They are smaller, weaker, or less able to communicate.” that justifies for our reasoning to test on them. The procedures that animals would have to endure range from skin and eye irritations to burns, shocks and more. We should not perceive an animal’s life as being any less valuable as a human’s
Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in United States labs every year. (1) Animals have been used since the 1920s to test the safety and effectiveness of drugs and vaccines in the United States. Animals are the sweetest and most adorable things in the world, I don’t know one person who doesn’t like animals. Companies are taking animals like mice, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, and even some cats and dogs to test their products. They are hurting animals and killing them when they are done using them.
Animals are being abused everyday and they are not taken into consideration when you see them being abused. They are suffering and they are being abused everyday and you all need to stop it. Animal cruelty is not something that just goes away the person doing it will keep doing it until someone stops them. Everyone needs to stop animal abuse and if everyone starts to make a difference others will to. Animals need help with this and everyone needs to help them.
The argument over animal experimentation is one of that battles between extremes in human nature. There are those that will argue that animal experimentation is cruel and unnecessary, and others who argue that animal experimentation is key to advancing modern medicine, technology, and medical procedures. In reality, there are laws, rules, and regulations over animal experimentation that ensure the safety and comfort of the animals that are being experimented over. There are also - despite these efforts - researchers who mistreat animals and experiment on them in cruel ways. Because of human nature, there will always be those who follow the rules exactly and those that deliberately break them.
Animal experimentation or animal research, refer to experimentation carried out on animals, this testing is used for countless product and applications. It is unethical to realize this several test on animals because they can get hurt and suffer pain, moreover in most of the case the experiments are not guaranteed until the product is on the market. Experimenting on animals is a way to protect person from the side effect that new products can cause in human health. Everyday medical, cosmetic and other companies are trying to create new products, but the problem with these new products is that are unpredictable to the health. For example the animals and the humans share hundreds of disease including cancer, diabetes, arthritis and others, a
In the United States, more than 100 million animals are killed each year due to animal experimentation in laboratories, which is way too many. Everyday animals are burnt, sliced, poisoned with drugs, or executed during psychological testing. Animal experimentation is downright mean. Animals should not be put at risk or harmed to ensure the safety of humans. Animal experimentation is conducted by universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies, and military defence establishments (Murnaghan).
It gives animals no rights or wills. The animals do not have a say in this, they don’t say “Hey, please don’t kill me”. Even if they could i’m sure the scientists would not listen at all and continue to torture the animal. Some people think much more differently than me. Many say “but it would be safe to not test on humans, animals have no souls, they are treated very well in the cages.”.
Today many tests involving them, involve them receiving cancer, AIDS, and other diseases. There has recently been new guide lines, inspired by other countries regulations, that will decrease the number of chimps used and force them to be retired lab rats. But even when retired they are most often confided in cages by themselves where they exhibit unusual behavior and have even been diagnose with depression and PTSD. Besides these new guidelines, that will not even safe all the tortured chimpanzees, the United States has no other regulations against testing. The EU has now banded animal testing for cosmetic products as well as banning imported products from other countries that have used animal testing.