Humans are inconsiderate and selfish and inflict these actions on suffering animals. People are standing up for the rights for animals and proving that if they are living life, with feelings, they should be treated with the same respect as humans. The prevention of animal cruelty started and became an important movement in the early nineteenth century. Activist are fighting to stop experimentation, poaching, abuse and much more that animals are wrongly put through. Animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from medical research, hunting and other services to humans. Animal rights activist have turned their attention to experimentation. Animal experimentation is the use of animals in experiments being tested to see
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Dysport®, an anti-wrinkle treatment, is performed on animals. This treatment used by the Ipsen Corporation involves injecting scores of powerful toxins into mice. This test will kill fifty percent of the animals. The mice experience nausea and a wave of muscle paralysis that leads to a slow suffocating death. At Emory University, a four year old monkey was used in a malaria study. The monkey was reluctant to move nine days after being infected. The monkey had signs of severe malaria; was not eating and had a high heart rate. Twelve days after being infected, he had pale mucous membranes, a severe heart murmur and anemia, purple spots all over his body, and developed gangrene on his fingertips and tail, which he was biting because of extreme distress. This monkey should not have progressed to such an extensive state of suffering before euthanized on the fourteenth day. These suffering animals should not be forced to undergo these painful experiments.
Humans also capture and hunt innocent animals. Poaching is illegal hunting, killing and capturing of wild animals. Most poaching is done because the animal has something that is considered valuable like fur or ivory. The main reason for poaching is to sell animal parts to the black market and receive money from it. Even though poaching is illegal, it is still being done. Tigers and elephants
Dysport®, an anti-wrinkle treatment, is performed on animals. This treatment used by the Ipsen Corporation involves injecting scores of powerful toxins into mice. This test will kill fifty percent of the animals. The mice experience nausea and a wave of muscle paralysis that leads to a slow suffocating death. At Emory University, a four year old monkey was used in a malaria study. The monkey was reluctant to move nine days after being infected. The monkey had signs of severe malaria; was not eating and had a high heart rate. Twelve days after being infected, he had pale mucous membranes, a severe heart murmur and anemia, purple spots all over his body, and developed gangrene on his fingertips and tail, which he was biting because of extreme distress. This monkey should not have progressed to such an extensive state of suffering before euthanized on the fourteenth day. These suffering animals should not be forced to undergo these painful experiments.
Humans also capture and hunt innocent animals. Poaching is illegal hunting, killing and capturing of wild animals. Most poaching is done because the animal has something that is considered valuable like fur or ivory. The main reason for poaching is to sell animal parts to the black market and receive money from it. Even though poaching is illegal, it is still being done. Tigers and elephants