The bill of rights protects us as humans from neglect, abuse and being enslaved. Animals should have the same protection as we do. Why should we allow animals to be abused? Why is it un-humane if we put a tracker chip in a humans head but humane for an animal? Humans have feeling like humans and their feelings should be protected like just like ours. A person with a clean record who commits murder is sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in federal prison. A person with a clean record who kills a dog or other animal illegally can only be sentenced to 18 months in prison. There shouldn’t be a double standard for the killing of humans and animals. Both humans and animals are a form of life and both have feelings, families and a beating heart. Even though there are laws for animal cruelty, they are so poorly enforced that the crime goes unpunished and are usually repeated many of times by the same person. Animals should be included in …show more content…
The bill of rights should protect animals from murder, fighting, and neglect. If we don't change the way we treat animals we won’t have any animals. Everyone thing on this planet has it job, as humans our job is to help maintain peace and treat those who can't stand up for themselves fairly. Animals deserve a fair chance at life. They want live, have children and share their love just like we do. Animals that are put in shelters are killed to allow space for other animals to take their cage. We don't kill prison inmates just to free up some space. Why should we kill animals to free up space? When a child is put into foster care they wait till they can be adopted and loved by a family. Animals should be given the same right and chance to live. A bill of rights for an animal doesn't
It is basically survival of the fittest. Giving animal’s rights should be necessary only if they are being abused. For example, forcing dogs to fight other dogs till one is dead. If the animals are killed for our basic human needs than it should not be wrong. I agree with Bob Stevens in his letter to Rifkins when he mentions the fact that pigs would get toys even though there are human beings in the world who do not have such things.
Many Americans blindly believe that animals deserve the same rights as humans, but little do they know about the differences between the welfare of animals and the rights of animals. In the article A Change of Heart about Animals, Jeremy Rifkin cleverly uses certain negative words in order to convince the readers that animals need to be given same rights as humans, and if not more. Research has shown that non-human animals have the ability to “feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement and even love” (Rifkin 33). Animals may be able to feel emotions, however this does not necessarily mean that they are able to understand what having rights mean. While humans must accept their moral responsibility to properly care for animals,
People need to start spaying and neutering their pets pets. They need to stop because it is an overpopulation of domestic pets, and if they spay and neuter them, that would help a lot. Cats and dogs produce a good number of puppies and kittens. All of those is not going to get a home. This is why we need to spay and neuter our pets.
Suppose you hear of a case where a human is torturing their dog or cat; you are very displeased and upset by this because you too have a dog and/or cat that you love dearly. You question how someone can torture such sweet innocent animals. Now take a minute and think if you would be just as upset to hear of a chicken or a pig treated in this cruel way. Would it bother you as much to learn of a pig being torched from birth or to hear of a puppy being torched from birth? Most people would say it bothers them more to hear of a puppy being torched than to hear of a pig being torched; but why is this?
In the articles of Jeremy Rifkin, Victoria Braithwaite, and Ed Yong, there's a deep research and debate whether animals should be given the right to have human rights or not. All authors include their perspective on the issue and provide scientific evidence. However, I believe that there should be a separation of rights between animals and humans because there is no biological basis for drawing the line. Giving the right to apes, what factors exclude other mammals like dogs, cats, and birds.
One topic that many scholars are debating right now is the topic of animal rights. The questions are, on what basis are rights given, and do animals possess rights? Two prominent scholars, Tom Regan and Tibor Machan, each give compelling arguments about animal rights, Regan for them and Machan against them. Machan makes the sharp statement, “Animals have no rights need no liberation” (Machan, p. 480). This statement was made in direct opposition to Regan who says, “Reason compels us to recognize the equal inherent value of these animals and, with this, their equal right to be treated with respect” (Regan, p. 477).
As a society there should be a continuation of proceeding to develop new laws. Animals have rights that are not being protected or considered when they are not given the chance to live without suffering or harm. Additionally animal rights are violated when they are used as products for experimentation. Animal experimentations
I will argue in favor of Regan’s principle that non-human animals should have moral rights. Tom Regan, a famous philosopher, proposed the idea “that animals have rights based on their inherent value as experiencing subjects of life” (Regan). For thousands of years, animals have been used for as pets, food, and labor. Throughout the past century, many philosophers, including Regan, have raised arguments on how we, as humans, are treating animals poorly.
How animals are treated can also affect daily human life. Animal rights are rights given to animals to be free from exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse and enumerates further rights for laboratory animals, farm animals, companion animals, and wildlife. Some animals should have a Bill of Rights. This law does go against centuries of human culture. This law would increase the cost of food.
Animals are great and make our lives better but when they are suffering and all we can do is extend their pain for a few months and pay thousands of dollars it just isn’t worth it. Americans nowadays spend money on tons of things that aren’t worth it, but spending thousands of dollars on dying animals is ridiculous. Furthermore, people even treat their animals as family like for example “Eighty-Three Percent refer to themselves to as their parents pet’s mom or dad” (The Last Meow). As a former pet owner I can say that it is ridiculous how people consider animals as their family and use that to justify spending thousands of dollars to keep them for a few months longer.
Animals are living, breathing, innocent creatures, who feel pain and neglect just like we do. They do not deserve to be treated this way! A duck being stabbed in the head, a cat being shot by an arrow, organized dog fighting rings are some of the many ways animals on a daily basis. If this type of abuse happened to humans, there would be no question in much harsher sentences, then why is it not the same for animals? Lastly, it’s important to consider, that one day these animals abusers are abusing animals, what makes you think they are going to stop there?
Certain animals also need to be protected before it is too late. We should have an animals bill of rights because many animals are listed on the endangered species list on world wildlife federation’s website. If we keep treating animals how we treat them today then a lot of them are gonna die off, then what happens? We wouldn’t be able to use them for resources and it would be very difficult to find substitutes. A way we can avoid this issue is to have the bill of rights and let animals reproduce and live with their little ones for a little before we kill them and use them for resources.
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.
(“Human Society Organization,” 2014, para.5) Should there be such thing as animal rights? Yes they should because animals are just like humans. They have a nervous system and can be affected both physically and mentally. Animal Exploitation comes in many different ways. Some
Animal rights have and always will be a topic of heated controversy and debate, with both sides having their own good and bad points. There is a wide array of mistreatment amongst animals in today’s society, specifically in zoos, which can be said to be prisons for animals. It is an issue of paramount due to the fact of shared similarity between humans and animals, including some animals having high emotional intelligence. Although, it is an unclear issue, and currently I am unknown to a solution and what is right, due to my lack of awareness of the issue and knowledge of zoos, also added to the fact of the morality issue of what is right and wrong since animals tend to be valued less than humans.