For years, testing has been run at the expense of animals to protect humans from a range of products and chemicals including pesticides, cosmetics, household cleaners, and vaccines. This testing, and abuse of animals has raised serious ethical dilemmas and a moral debate in deliberately poisoning animals for the sake of our betterment. Is there a possibility that a better way of testing these harmful products could exist? If we must test on animals, is there a safer way? The proposed Animal Bill of Rights addresses these questions, and should be passed to protect animals from exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse. This simple petition to the United states Congress, states that all sentiment beings have basic rights, and should be protected
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Steven M. Wise explains that, “Apes have most, if not all, of the same emotions that we do . . . They use insight, not just trial and error, to solve problems. They form complex mental representations, including mental maps of the area where they live”. According to PETA, more than 105,000 ape are tortured, tested on, and imprisoned by laboratories around the United States each year. It has not always been known that apes had these remarkable capabilities, and the laws set in place back then were sufficient to the knowledge at that time. But as Wise states in his article, “Twenty-first-century law should be based on twenty-first-century knowledge”. Today, we know that apes, and even other animals are not as we anticipated they were. With this new knowledge, steps need to be taken to ensure they are …show more content…
Author Matthew Scully states, “With no laws to stop it, moral concern surrendered entirely to economic calculation, leaving no limit to the punishments that factory farmers could inflict to keep costs down and profits up”. No longer are animals cared for. No longer do animals have to opportunity to run, or play, or live a healthy life. Factory farmed animals are confined to steel cages, often overcrowded with many roommates. Like crops in a field, they are “grown”. They no longer called “animals”, instead they are referred to as “production units”. As a result, cows, pigs, and birds are left to a life of imprisonment, for the convenience of humans. They suffer endlessly, with no support from the government, and billions are slaughtered each
Steven M. Wise explains that, “Apes have most, if not all, of the same emotions that we do . . . They use insight, not just trial and error, to solve problems. They form complex mental representations, including mental maps of the area where they live”. According to PETA, more than 105,000 ape are tortured, tested on, and imprisoned by laboratories around the United States each year. It has not always been known that apes had these remarkable capabilities, and the laws set in place back then were sufficient to the knowledge at that time. But as Wise states in his article, “Twenty-first-century law should be based on twenty-first-century knowledge”. Today, we know that apes, and even other animals are not as we anticipated they were. With this new knowledge, steps need to be taken to ensure they are …show more content…
Author Matthew Scully states, “With no laws to stop it, moral concern surrendered entirely to economic calculation, leaving no limit to the punishments that factory farmers could inflict to keep costs down and profits up”. No longer are animals cared for. No longer do animals have to opportunity to run, or play, or live a healthy life. Factory farmed animals are confined to steel cages, often overcrowded with many roommates. Like crops in a field, they are “grown”. They no longer called “animals”, instead they are referred to as “production units”. As a result, cows, pigs, and birds are left to a life of imprisonment, for the convenience of humans. They suffer endlessly, with no support from the government, and billions are slaughtered each