Ethical consumerism

I believe that animals for research should be banned. The use of animals for research should not happen because animals feel everything just like humans do. In the U.S. labs, over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused every year. More than 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are either too dangerous or it just does not work. Israel and India have already banned animal testing for cosmetics, and the…

Testing cosmetics on animals is one of the most common methods animals are experimented on in laboratories. The United States does not require their cosmetic products be tested on animals before use. In contrast, countries like China are known for their strict policy of constructing tests on cosmetics using animals before they allow the products into the country. Some tests that are carried out in the experimentations are, chemicals rubbed onto shaved skin, or dripped into the eye of the animal…

Solitary confinement, or also known as Security Housing Unit, is defined as isolating an inmate from the general population for twenty-two to twenty-three hours a day for months or years. Its main purpose is to punish inmates who break prison rules or endanger prison guards and other inmates. First, let’s take a step back and look at the downfall of solitary confinement. U.S prisons must ban solitary confinement because it causes psychological effects on inmates, it is considered cruel and…

paradox may be the conflict between the sense and the sensibility. It has been over two hundred years since Jane Austen wrote the novel Sense and Sensibility, yet to our surprise nothing has really changed. We still struggle to make the moral and ethical choices that people have struggled with over the years. In “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King Jr. broke unjust laws and engaged in nonviolence direct action in order to gain equality and freedom. In “Dog Lab”, Claire McCarthy…

this usually leads to a debate on whether or not ethical to test on animals. This can also referred as an ethical dilemma, which occurs when someone is not able to make a decision due to moral conflicts. Furthermore, individuals question whether it is ever ethical to experiment on animals, the answer is not clear. Some people argue that animal testing is ethical and it is better than conducting experiments on humans. However, I think it is never ethical to experiment on animals because animals…

Imagine living inside a locked closet. Only wide enough to lay down and tall enough for you to stand. The small space is dark and cold. You have no control of your life and each day is a guessing game. You cannot choose when you will eat, what you will do that day, and you have no idea if you will ever be able to get out of the cage. Each day is a struggle to stay alive. This description is the life of an animal in a testing laboratory. These innocent creatures spend their lives locked up as…

There are many worldwide laws that are here to protect animals. In North Carolina there is a law that say if any person should maliciously kill or caused a animal to be killed intentionally will be charged with a felon. Laws like this are put in place to help animals be protected against abusers.Of course sometimes laws like this do not convince or persuade abusers to stop the crimes. Abuse in different Communities Even though animal abuse happens in many communities, different animals are…

along with a lot of feces and rat droppings. Many of the monkeys would eat at their own flesh and tend to lose fingers due to them getting caught in the rusted parts of the cages. At this time, PETA was created. PETA stands for the “People for the Ethical…

Humans argue that animals are not capable of grasping moral concepts, such as rights. However, humans are animals that do have rights. People have fought and continue to fight to give a voice to animals. “We are a predator of predators,” said the study’s lead author, Chris Darimont, Hakai-Raincoast professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and science director for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation,” reported by EcoWatch “Humans: The Worst Predator on the Planet”. Animal…

Should it Be Illegal To Euthanize Animals In Shelters? Millions of animals in shelters are put down every year and the blame is only to put on us, the humans. Animals end up in kill shelters because of us. A lot of the time theses animals are euthanized because of what the shelters do to them. They are also killed for the most unbelievable reasons, and sometimes the animals suffer when being euthanized. To most animals, shelters are paradise because they are not lonely and abandoned in the…