Animal rights

Tom Regan argues for the treatment of animals to be the same as that of humans. Rather than arguing a utilitarian perspective, Regan posits that an inherent value exists within entities that are what he calls “the subject of a life,” or rather have the ability to perceive and to possess desires and to deprive these entities of their life without sufficient moral reasoning is unconscionable. While humans may be privy to a larger range of cognitive abilities, Regan argues that these talents are…

this knowledge has come from the use of non-human animals in experimentation and research. Whether the use of non-human animals is warranted for such experiments or not, is a large topic of debate, and has many different positions, ranging from opposition, to agreement, to somewhere in between the two extremes. Disregarding of position, one notion that typically arises is that of the similarities (and by extension, differences) between non-human animals, and incompetent humans. The topic of this…

for human gustatory pleasure as cruel and disgusting, then we should consider the torture of cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals raised in factories for the same purpose…

especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans” (Dictonary.com, 2017). We recognize racism to be in favor of one’s own race against another while sexism is in favor of one’s own sex against another. Speciesism is analogous to racism and/or sexism because all three follow the bias of being in favor of one’s own being over another. Overall, animals and humans share the same purpose in life, to exist and live. When using animals as subjects for testing purposes, we are not…

communicate on a whole other level compared to other animals. Now, animals do communicate, however, they don’t communicate on the level that humans do. All dogs bark, all birds tweet, but humans have hundred of different languages each with unique characteristics. On top of that, humans also have the capability to read and write. No other organism has the ability to write out their thoughts or to read instructions on how to do something. Other animals are simply born with the ability to…

and feeds it to animals. Thus, the animal takes the inexpensive resources so it can become fatter and then the slaughtered animal is sold for a price that those in poorer communities cannot afford. This situation literally perpetuates the gap between those who are poor and hungry, and…

In his essay Animal Liberation, Peter Singer advocates for a basic principle of equality, regardless of differences between humans and non-humans. When postulating this approach, Singer compares the suffering of historically oppressed people such as African Americans and Women to that of animals today. To expand, Singer advocates for a liberation movement for animals, a movement that will help us explore our moral horizons, then leading us to acknowledge unethical and unjustifiable practices.…

Should animals be harmed to benefit mankind? This question has become quite a topic of discussion among philosophers in the last two centuries. Animal experimentation emerged in the early nineteenth century. Since then, it has provided humankind with innumerable benefits and advances in technology and medicine. As a matter of fact, it marked the birth of experimental physiology and neuroscience as we currently know it. For the most part, when it comes to Animal Rights, two ethical issues are…

Animal Cruelty Have you ever thought about where your chicken comes from before you put it on your plate? Have you ever thought about what is being done to them in order for people to be able to eat it? No one ever absolutely understands how the animals are being raised and treated before they become our food. However, I had never thought about this stuff before until I read the uttermost disturbing article and witnessed the horrifying video around how baby chicks get treated in those…

Animal testing is an inhumane practice I intend to get banned. I have signed petitions through the humane society to enact legislation regarding the banning of animal testing in cosmetics in hopes to end the disgusting, unnecessary treatment of these victims of speciesism. I cannot live a fulfilled life knowing there is a horrific genocide of living, conscious beings that have feelings and families without doing whatever I can to stop it from happening. One of the leading causes of global…