People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Human cloning has become a more widely debated topic in the scientific field, medical field, and society. It started out as cloning animals, and now it is coming to the point where cloning may be used on humans in the near future. This raises concern for many people around the world who are totally against it. It also brings hope for those in the medical field who are searching for ways to treat and cure certain diseases in their patients. The major thing preventing the cloning of humans is the…

4.2 Justification for animal tests When required to make proper provision to ensure human safety, animal testing to enable the proper biological characterization of materials used in medical devices is acceptable. For the purposes of the ISO 10993 series, animal tests shall only be deemed to be justified when: the resulting data are not otherwise available, but are essential to properly characterize the test material in the context in which it is to be used; when no suitable scientifically…

Animal Testing is Cruel and Unnecessary Every year, 100 million animals are killed because of animal testing (“The 5 Worst Animal Experiments Happening Right Now.”). Tobacco companies are forcing animals to smoke, some animal are even getting smoked pumped into their noses for hours a day for “research” (“The 5 Worst Animal Experiments Happening Right Now”).There are non-animal testing methods that are superior but they aren’t being utilized. Animals are dying for biology lessons,…

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Even though Bershadker does explain how there is a mass growth in the fight to end puppy mills, he does not explain all the ways that we can help. Puppy mills are locations where dogs are breed continuously to supply pet stores with puppies. Even though Bershadker does a wonderful job explaining the situation of puppy mills and explaining how the ASPCA is diffusing the situation, he forgets that everyday people who want to help cannot…

Did you know that over 56 billion animals are killed in factory farms each year? In each factory there are thousands of animals smashed together and killed to create more space to fill with more animals. These animals are raised in harsh conditions and carry many diseases. Factory farming started because the US had a high demand for meat and it was also cheaper. After World War II, due to increased demand and specialised breeding, the layer hen and meat chicken became different breeds. Factory…

number of animals dying is unbelievable. People are the cause for animal death for food, or just cruelty. According to the number of animals abused on ASPCA char is that there are 10,000 estimated puppy mills in the U.S., 100,000+ American horses are slaughtered each year for human usage, and 250,000 animals fall victim to hoarding. The cause of these is because people want their meat, entertainment, physiological, poaching/hunting,and test. Animal hoarding is a different thing. Animal…

Cleaning Up the Labs “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any way” (PETA). Every day animals are experimented on in research labs. this is a problem that desperately needs to be fixed. A lot of animal rights advocates believe that all animals should be treated like pets, and that they all have a right to be treated with respect and have a good and healthy life. Animal rights advocates do not understand how people can be cruel to animals and…

Animal testing is a highly controversial topic with a multitude of opinions of both sides. It’s an industry where there are entire companies dedicated to the breeding of animals used for experimental purposes. It allows companies to order all types of animals, from beagles to mice, to be sent to their laboratory and tested on. Animal experiments are often used to develop new medicine and to test the safety of all kinds of products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved and…

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…

removes the claw and the bone from which it originates. If you take a look at your own human hand, this would mean removing the tip of your finger at the joint just under your fingernail. Ethically, arguments can be made that declawing is cruelty to animals, but also that human beings are the superior species and are entitled to declaw their cats in order to make themselves more comfortable.…