People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Animal Rights and Experimentation The two most controversial topics dealing with animals is their rights and experimentation. There has been an ample amount of opinions for and against each topic. Within the collection of essays in Animal Experimentation by Cindy Mur, all viewpoints are expressed with evidence behind them. These topics are brought up in various ways through everyday life. Although it is not as prominent of an issue as many others, such as gay rights and politics, it is still…

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…

and Gunter argue that breed type influences people, for example an animal shelter in Florida removed all breed specifications from their kennels, and the adoption of Pitbull’s went up by 75 percent. Even more, Wynne and Gunter tested the accuracy of “shelters breeding assignments”, and found that “only 12 percent were purebreds or a straight mix of two breeds. …staff only correctly identified all the breeds in a dog’s makeup in just a 10th of their animals”. Interestingly, Wynne and Gunter also…

Animal experimentation in fields of product safety and pharmaceutical development is a controversial subject. Those opposed to experimentation often cite the suffering of the animals, the existence of alternate testing methods, and the unproven benefits to human beings, as support for their reasoning, well those in favor of experimentation believe that the benefits to humanity cannot be gained any other way and substantially outweigh the harm done to the animals. In the article, “Why Animal…

First of all, why should humans protect tigers. Is this the responsibility of us to concern about the survival of them? Different perspective comes from different people, as for the negative point of view, poaching tigers could brought an ecological imbalance between herbivores and carnivores. “Web of Life”, tigers are playing the role as the apex predator of the ecosystem. Just think that if the numbers of tigers are drastically decreasing, it could lead to over abundance of herbivores. Since…

Proponents/Perspective Against: There are Cons of having children raising animlas for market purposes. Sending your animal to get slaughter is tuff for lids and they might get sad. This is an animal you have been spending a lot of time with and you start to grow a bond with it as if it was your pet. The speration between an animal and a human is tuff espically at a young age. When spending time with an animal and getting to trust you and to see it leave to what is its death is really tuff.…

Animal experimentation remains serious problems in our society. In our society, animals are treated differently. Some people treat animals as pets and others use them for developing technology. In recent years, animals are used in order to make sure that products are safe enough to be used for humans. Also new effective medical treatments have been effectively developed because of animal experiments. However the tests that the animals are used are extremely painful and immoral. Although people…

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…

Animal testing has been a debate for 30 years as the practice raises ethical and moral questions. The debate questions the effectiveness and importance of animal testing. Some support the procedure where others are against. The procedure is supported by some due to the fact that it is more ethically correct to perform testing on animals rather than testing it on human subjects. Others are against this procedure because they believe that animals have rights and they should be protected It is the…

brings many risks making de-extinction precarious. These risks include animal welfare and health. Politics is another thing needing to be considered with de-extinction. For example, de-extinction possibly will change priorities for medical researchers. This would not be good because these researchers will be worrying more about bringing back already extinct animals, rather than worrying about keeping alive humans and animals already living today. De-extinction remains unnecessary. Although it…