2. Experimentation and Testing
The second example of human speciesism toward nonhuman species is with experimentation and testing for products and scientific research. There are lists of companies that test mice, rats, rabbits and dogs for cosmetics and other cleaning items. Scientists research on nonhuman animals to study disease and test new treatments and operations. We are discriminating other species when we mutilate their bodies for profit because we would not experiment and test on other humans.
The Plague Dogs and Bold Native films provide a realistic view of the set-up and workings in animal researching laboratories. In the former movie, Rowf is being tested for physical endurance so scientists put him in a water tank which forces …show more content…
Some of these include bullfighting, circuses, and hunting which disregard nonhuman species’ interests. We are discriminating other species when we use them as entertainment for human pleasure because we would not subject other humans under these conditions.
Corrida de Torros and other bullfighting traditions display speciesism. Humans breed bulls to fight, they torture the bull with weapons, and kill them in large arenas. Before the spectacle, humans starve, beat, isolate, and drug the bulls so it is disoriented and defenseless when it enters the arena (Last Chance for Animals). We discriminate nonhuman species when we find pleasure in their suffering. Also, when there is an injured Matador, there are medics prepared to treat him. No one is there for the bull’s …show more content…
Humans find pleasure and thrill when they shoot or trap a nonhuman species. Like factory farming, hunting for food is not necessary and it inflicts violence and death on innocent and defenseless nonhuman species.
To think that hunting is population control is an illusory correlation. If all hunting ceased, humans would also stop the practices that increase animal populations. In addition, hunters tend to kill the biggest and strongest animal, influencing natural evolution. The weaker phenotypes are now becoming more prominent which can be concerning for nonhuman animal survival. We discriminate nonhuman species when we murder animals and decrease species' abilities to survive for our own pleasure.
According to Victoria Braithwaite's book Do Fish Feel Pain?, fish do feel pain which denounces all the statements and myths that fish do not feel pain so fishing is a "humane" sport. According to PETA, some fish swallow hooks and anglers and fishers try to remove them, ripping up the fish’s’ insides. Some fish are killed, but others thrown back into the water might be injured and bleeding resulting in a slow, painful
The second example of human speciesism toward nonhuman species is with experimentation and testing for products and scientific research. There are lists of companies that test mice, rats, rabbits and dogs for cosmetics and other cleaning items. Scientists research on nonhuman animals to study disease and test new treatments and operations. We are discriminating other species when we mutilate their bodies for profit because we would not experiment and test on other humans.
The Plague Dogs and Bold Native films provide a realistic view of the set-up and workings in animal researching laboratories. In the former movie, Rowf is being tested for physical endurance so scientists put him in a water tank which forces …show more content…
Some of these include bullfighting, circuses, and hunting which disregard nonhuman species’ interests. We are discriminating other species when we use them as entertainment for human pleasure because we would not subject other humans under these conditions.
Corrida de Torros and other bullfighting traditions display speciesism. Humans breed bulls to fight, they torture the bull with weapons, and kill them in large arenas. Before the spectacle, humans starve, beat, isolate, and drug the bulls so it is disoriented and defenseless when it enters the arena (Last Chance for Animals). We discriminate nonhuman species when we find pleasure in their suffering. Also, when there is an injured Matador, there are medics prepared to treat him. No one is there for the bull’s …show more content…
Humans find pleasure and thrill when they shoot or trap a nonhuman species. Like factory farming, hunting for food is not necessary and it inflicts violence and death on innocent and defenseless nonhuman species.
To think that hunting is population control is an illusory correlation. If all hunting ceased, humans would also stop the practices that increase animal populations. In addition, hunters tend to kill the biggest and strongest animal, influencing natural evolution. The weaker phenotypes are now becoming more prominent which can be concerning for nonhuman animal survival. We discriminate nonhuman species when we murder animals and decrease species' abilities to survive for our own pleasure.
According to Victoria Braithwaite's book Do Fish Feel Pain?, fish do feel pain which denounces all the statements and myths that fish do not feel pain so fishing is a "humane" sport. According to PETA, some fish swallow hooks and anglers and fishers try to remove them, ripping up the fish’s’ insides. Some fish are killed, but others thrown back into the water might be injured and bleeding resulting in a slow, painful