Ethical Consumer

Barrel Racing in the Raw What would you do if you were told that the only activity that you truly love is cruel? In society today, barrel racers are being bashed for cruelty of their horses. I have been barrel racing for eight years now and I can confirm that the sport of barrel racing, if performed correctly, is not cruel to the animal in any way. However, it is quite the opposite. Riders take special care for their horses, it is difficult to cause a horse pain, and there are rarely any body…

The pharmaceuticals U-50.488H in 0.6 and 1.25 mg/kg doses for control animals was ineffective for behaviour changes. In the same time the 2.5 mg/kg dose decreased the number of approaches compare to the behaviour of animals, which got injected with saline (p < 0.001) and the pharmaceuticals in 0.6 mg/kg dose (p < 0.05) and 1.25 mg/kg (p < 0.001). For aggressive male mice the pharmaceuticals with 2.5 mg/kg dose decreased the number of approaches to partition compare to behaviour of…

Imagine being separated from your family at birth, thrown into a cage, fed badly, forgotten about, unloved, and tortured through some of the most terrifying and worst pain? This is the daily life of a test animal. It is horrible, torturous, and unfair. Animal testing should be forbidden in every country. It is a completely pointless thing to do, and creates many negative effects on both animals and people. It is an awful and disgusting thing to do to another living creature with similar feelings…

I am writing to you, Jeremy Rifkin, today to talk about the article that you have written “A Change of Heart about Animals”. In the article you talk about how animals do have at least basic human feelings and if not more. That “many of our fellow creatures are more like us than we had ever imagined”. That we should do something about how we treat the animals around us. I absolutely agree with you and think we should treat the animals around us differently than we do now. There have been many…

Summary 1 ; Substitute of animals in drug research: An approach towards fulfillment of 4R's . Arora, T., Mehta, A., Joshi, V., Mehta, K., Rathor, N., Mediratta, P., & Sharma, K. (2011). Substitute of animals in drug research: An approach towards fulfillment of 4R's. Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 73(1), 1-6. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/904096963?accountid=158790 Animal testing has been one of the biggest worries of environmentalists and animals friends . Few…

What is okay to do in the name of science and its advances? The debate on animal testing has always been around but more and more people are starting to disagree with it. So if so many people disagree with it, why is animal testing still happening? There are places like China where it is actually illegal not to test on animals before selling cosmetics to the public and other places like Europe where it is completely illegal to test on animals for cosmetics. So who’s right? There is the morality…

Is animal experimentation justified? Some say yes, while the other side says no. Those that oppose animal experimentation argue that animals have their own unalienable rights and should not be tortured for our benefit. However, diseases such as smallpox, Polio, tuberculosis, and meningitis are not nearly as common as they were in previous times. Diseases that were thought to be incurable such as cancer and AIDS are slowly becoming vulnerable to new medicine that is being tested. Advocates of…

So many animals around the world die every year. This is happening because of animal testing. Each year more than 100,000,000 animals die in U.S laboratories. Animals should not be tested on. Animal testing is cruel and unkind.The common Lethal Dose 50 ( LD50) involves finding out which dose of a chemical will kill 50% of animals. People use chemicals purposely to see if the animals will die from it, that is just cruel. Some of the animals are pushed to forced feeding, forced breathing, and…

Animal Rights Wendy Guindi Azusa Pacific University Animal Rights Animals should be used only in ways that greatly benefit humankind. Whenever possible, these animals should be treated without cruelty. People who hold this position, which includes many animals’ welfare groups, believe our responsibility is to treat animals with kindness. It is acceptable to use animals to accomplish goals that will benefit society, as long as we do so in the kindest way possible. The belief that…

Animal testing is an inhumane, ineffective method of research. One reason is that these tests do not transition successfully into human trials. There is a low percentile of human diseases that are seen in animals. Over 98% of these illnesses never affect animals. Smoking was originally thought to be non-carcinogenic; this was because the cancer which was caused by smoking was difficult to reproduce in laboratory animals. Another reason that animal testing is ineffective is because of the…