Ingrid Newkirk

For quite some time now, the debate of animal experimentation has been a major issue. There have been arguments about whether animals should be treated, recognized and protected by human society just as every human. Animal testing has provided human beings as a crucial safety check that can inform scientists what won't work, so unnecessary human experiments aren't conducted. Although an animal might result in chronic, fatal state, and even death, this will prevent the death of human lives in…

shelters is also the most preventable. Pet overpopulation.” They do prevent this, but in a way that's unnecessary. They are killing the animals, instead of expanding the shelter which is unreasonable. Another reason from Why We Euthanize by Ingrid Newkirk, states a big reason animals are put down, is because of sickness. This is because treatment is really expensive and shelters can’t afford it. Shelters…

The Moral Controversy on Using Animal for Research Historically, the health and well being of humans have taken precedent over those of animals’. Only recently have animal “rights” become a major and sometimes controversial topic in the general public. The controversy is inflamed by the fact that it is common practice to use animals for medical research. Different people have many different views on this topic. Is it humane to experiment on animals? Does a life-saving vaccine warrant the pain…

Cosmetic testing on animals causes more harm than good because of the unnecessary pain inflicted towards the animal, increasing costs of animal testing, and the unreliable comparison between animals and humans. In my opinion, testing cosmetic products on animals is not a necessity. No animal should have to die because of volumizing mascara or coconut scented shampoo. Products used on the skin or near the eyes should logically already be safe and should not have dangerous ingredients in them that…

This organization was founded in March 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco. The organization didn’t start to take off until a case that was called “Silver Spring monkeys” started making headlines. The case consisted of 17 monkeys being tested of in a research lab in Silver Spring, Maryland. Alex Pacheco heard about the news and started working undercover at the lab. He then immediately alerted the police about the cruel conditions the monkeys were put in. Lucky the police corporated and…

PETA to the Extreme Extremism can be defined as; an ideology considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of a society or to violate 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…

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…

Growing up in Armenia my grandpa had a farm filled with chickens. He would feed them on a regular basis and take care of them every day. When the chickens would lay eggs my grandpa would cook it for my family to eat it. I would always ask my grandpa how do chickens make eggs, but he would never explain it to me. As I got older I realized that people have different assumptions about eating meat or not. Some say that they need meat in order to survive and others say that eating meat is wrong.…

They have many supporters and followers that think they are an amazing organization and have great goals. Ingrid Newkirk, CEO of PETA, made the decision to release the campaign, and did not address the heated, angry emotions that arose surrounding the images for nearly two years after the campaign’s release in 2003.Consumers of media messages, both in the United…

regarding the use of the donated funds. Animal rights group, PETA challenged whether or not the money that was being raised for this problem was going to be used correctly. Ingrid E. Newkirk, the president of PETA, suggested that money that was raised for the ALS Association was going to be used to run painful tests on animals. Newkirk then recommended that we should “donate to charities only listed on humaneseal.org” because those charities don’t fund animal experiments (Bedard 2014). This…