Animal Liberation

Animal Experimentation and Research Common sense seems to dictate that the aim of medicine, vaccines, and surgeries are to improve our health, reduce and manage our pain and illnesses, and hopefully to live a longer life. With man wanting to learn more about the structure of the human body, he began experimenting on animals since using humans was considered unethical. According to the Professors of Pharmacology Badyal and Desai, animals are used in experimentation primarily for education,…

The act of animal testing for biomedical research began as early as 500 BC. The known people who had started this were Aristotle and Erasistratus. They performed experiments on living animals. A Greek physician named Galen, who lived from 129-199/217 AD, conducted research on animals to understand studies such as anatomy and pharmacology. A man named Ibn Zuhr was an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain. He introduced animal testing as a way of practicing medical procedures before…

The debate about animal testing being right or wrong has been going on for years now. Although animal testing has improved new medication over the years, as well as it has found the cure for many illnesses, this topic deal with sensitive issues; one of them being, is animal testing morally right? Thanks to animal testing, the wellness, and health of humans have improved significantly, on the other hand, however, by doing the “greater good” innocent animals are being tortured/killed every day.…

Overview 9 Denise Dearing focuses on how animals consuming plants can avoid the deadly toxin. Mammals synthesize biocompound to counteract toxins. She works with woodrats because there are over 20 different species and they can feed on a variety of different diets. Woodrats drag plants back to their mittens and those items serve as info for many researchers to recreate the flora of the desert. Dearing’s lab focuses on liver enzymes because it allow them to look at the mRNA while the rats are fed…

during human trials to perfect that product. Or worst, what animal had to suffer the consequences in order to ensure the safety of that human product. The purpose of this speech is to discuss the controversies of animal experimentation. The concerns it brings, the benefits that arises from this testing and suggested alternatives to decrease this practice. Over decades, animal rights advocates have argued against animal experimentation. These advocates had…

The animal testing process does help researchers for scientific advancement required in drug and cosmetic testing. This is to ensure the safety of humans. However, does the process of animal testing humane at all? Do its benefits justify the suffering caused by humans to animals? Thus, Laura and I will defend the rights of animals by stating different disadvantages in animal testing. Life in the laboratory is a world away from the natural environment. They are often housed in isolation, in…

common moral standards. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA, is a non-profit organization with the motto: “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment” (“The Issues”). PETA has expressed these extreme tendencies in many of their outlandish campaigns over the years. This evidence shows that PETA goes to eccentric lengths to further their own agenda. Though their cause for protecting animal welfare is more than noble, PETA takes it one step too far…

way people view the rights of animals that deserve better treatment as animal models. The reduction of the need for experiments on animals, started being considered due to the ethics about animals (Keith Zimmerman, 2010). It was believed that animals are simply automata and not capable of being conscious of thought and feeling among the scientific community even into 1970s. Nowadays some scientists will consider about if animal can feel pain. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has been known…

Animals have been used to learn more about the human body since approximately 500 BC. Aristotle practiced vivisections, dissecting living animals, in order to understand how human bodies worked (Should). The ethicality of animal testing has recently become a very controversial issue in America. The US federally regulates animal testing with the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which was passed in 1966 (Should). Testing chemicals on animals has allowed new medical discoveries to be made. Is it ethical…

The animals in a farm named Manor Farm attempt to assert their Otherness in contrast to the oppressive human interference through a Rebellion. The word Rebellion appears with a capital ‘R’, as if the animals have almost found their harmony with deifying the act of Othering. The capitalized ‘Rebellion’ seems a raw simulation of the anthropocentric deity-figure that appears in grand narratives of the religious kind. The Rebellion of Manor Farm turns bloody and resembles in all its subtlety the…