Speciesism

grandpa is shipped off to a facility where they test unregulated amounts of drugs, makeup, and shampoos on him. R. G. Frey uses this example of testing on cognitively impaired humans throughout his piece, “Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism.”. This paper will outline Frey’s arguments on why human life generally has more value than animal life and highlight the exceptions to the rule that justify the mentioned scenario, while also presenting objections to the unequal value thesis…

ethics. Upon further reading of Kant I learnt that he believed that humans “have no direct duties to animals” and feels they are “things we may dispose of as we will”(Wood, 1998). This disregard of value in the life of animals is symptomatic of speciesism in wider society, which I feel is an under-represented issue within business ethics and by proxy the business ethics…

Kristian Gunderson Miss windish English 2 2 October 2017 Horrors of Animal Testing! “Animals can suffer like humans do, so it is speciesism to experiment on them while we refrain from experimenting on humans” (“Using Animal For Testing: Pros Versuses Cons”). This quotation is why animal testing is cruel and problematic. Define animal testing. Thesis. Why is animal testing bad? Some substances that is tested doesn't actually get used in the real world. That being said, the animals being…

Many companies and businesses use animals for research and testing out new products. Members in the scientific community also use animals to further their research. Using animals for these purposes are necessary. After all, animals played a huge role in many medical research and breakthroughs over the last couple decades. Without animal testing, we wouldn’t have many household products, cosmetics, or even drugs which help prevent diabetes, HIV and cancer. In these situations, animals help…

of a pro animal testing group, in order to get both sides of the argument. Dr. Singer questions why our species is more important than that of a fellow sentient being. Humans who believe they are the better dominant group is what Dr. Singer calls speciesism which he compares in some ways to racism and sexism. Dr. Young says “that when people ask him how he can do testing on animals”, he shows them kids who are terminally ill with cancer and talks about how his research is benefiting…

Did you know, more than 100 million animals each year are killed in the U.S laboratories for drug, food, chemical, and cosmetic testing (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals)? These animals are used to test safety of products for human use, toxicity levels of medication, and many other types of scientific and commercial testing. “95% of animals used in experiments are not protected by the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA)” (Procon). AWA is the only law that regulates treatment of animals in…

I believe that animal experimentation is a valid medical research technique and am support it. I believe this for a multitude of reasons, the biggest being as follows: animal experimentation is necessary for the betterment of medical technologies and drug development, alternatives are not as cost efficient and do not produce results that are as accurate as those produces by animal experimentation, and animals do not have equal rights to humans. I personally find these reasons to be irrefutable…

Approximately every 10 seconds, an animal is abused in some way, shape, or form in America. In 1966 President Johnson signed the Animal Welfare Act, which is the only federal law that protects and regulates the rights of animals in the United States to date (“Animal Welfare” 2017). All of the states have laws to protect animals, but the consequences and offences outlined in the laws differ in every state. This lack of laws and consequences causes the need for a discussion of the rights of…

pollution to our environment. Producing livestock requires many resources and produces a huge amount of waste at the same time. 55% of the water in the U.S goes towards animal agriculture, where as American homes only use about 5%. Deforestation, Speciesism, Environmental degradation, water waste, carbon foot prints, methane emissions, cruelty and suffering, health issues and our ethics are all put at risk when we consume animal products. Nearly three thousand gallons of water is needed to…

Be Non-Violent, Be Vegan! Is the realization of torture, terrorizing and vivisection style mass slaughtering of billions of innocent animals a year for “your” food not enough to make you go vegan? Perhaps it will, when you realize that the killing you continue to support is going to kill you! Animals are “someone” and not “something” that experience joy and pain. They have the moral right not be exploited and suffer at the hands of humans to be used for food, clothing or amusement. Factory…