Brian Regan

Alexus Ford English 101-10513 14 Oct. 2017 Professor Cuaves Rhetorical Strategies in: ASPCA Commercial Ft Sarah McLachlan The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to animals. Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, the organization’s mission is “to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states. The ASPCA commercial achieved the sole purpose of swaying its…

Animal rights has been a prominent topic of debate since the rise of the Animal Right’s Movement during the 1970’s. Animals have long been treated simply as resources for the benefit of humans in various situations such as scientific testing, the clothing industry, and especially the food industry. People argue not only about implementing rights for animals, but also about which rights we should consider and how we should go about implementing them. Philosopher Peter Singer provides insight into…

Animal Rights For Decades the American society as well as many others, have been participants in an ongoing controversy regarding animal rights and animal protection. This particular debate has raised so much havoc in the world today, considering activist for animal rights are very passionate and will not stop on the account of politeness to get a point across. A widely known animal rights group established in 1980, known as Peta are famous for throwing buckets of wet paint on a various victims…

In Immanuel Kant’s “Duties toward Animals, Spirits, and inanimate objects” he makes his stance on animal rights very clear. He believes that we have no direct duties to animals, yet we have indirect duties towards them in order to benefit mankind. Though many philosophers agreed with his way of thinking, many modern day philosophers and scientists are able to find flaws in Kant’s arguments. Kants belief that “we have no duties to animals, plants, material objects, or the environment as a…

J Baird Callicott’s central criticism against animal liberationists (AL) is that the ethic is individualistic and limited to the concern of animal suffering; this ethic does not consider the morality of preserving the ecosystem. An AL argues that the interests of animals should be considered because they experience pain and suffering. They argue that the ethics of equality should be applied to other animals; all beings capable of suffering are worthy of equal consideration. Intelligence, value…

How would you feel if someone do an experience on you? Imagine if someone did that to you, would you like it? Millions of animals are killed everyone due to scientists doing test on them. If you think about it imagine what are those tests do to the animals, it damages their body some become very severely ill that they end up death. An unknown author from article “Animal testing” stated that human have no rights to use animals as if they were disposal objects. Its violates animal’s basic rights.…

Thesis Statement Animals deserve rights, and these rights should annihilate the problems with animal abuse, abandonment, and animal experimentation. Purpose Statement The purpose of this research paper is to discuss animal rights and what animals right activist ideology fight for which includes animal abuse, abandonment, experimentation, and laws that prevent inhuman actions towards animals. Introduction Animal rights is the idea in which all animals have the right to their life and their most…

Christina Hoff is the author of Moral and Immoral Uses of Animals. Hoff believes that the use of painful animal experimentation is only justifiable when the ends justify the means. This means to say that painful experimentation of animals is only morally justified when it serves a purpose that greatly benefits humans or other animals. Hoff also believes that human life is generally more important than animal life, and that painful experiments on non consenting humans is immoral regardless of the…

In this essay, I will argue that it is morally wrong to produce animals for food. I will do this by appealing to Leopold’s views on “the land”. First I will explain three views on animal rights by philosophers Tom Regan, Peter singer and Aldo Leopold. Tom Regan believes that each subject of life is an individual that cares about his or her life, therefore that life has inherent value. This inherent value is equal among all who have it, and one cannot have more inherent value than another. We…

Singer’s argument for lobbying against animal cruelty is highly respected and is used for most scholarly debates. His published book, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals, is widely considered within the animal liberation movement to be the founding philosophical statement of its ideas. Many, however, do not agree with Singer’s argument that nonhuman animal suffering should be taken into consideration when compared to human suffering. Their argument is mainly that animals…