ASPCA Animal Rights

Recall the line, “Help control the pet population, have your pets spayed or neutered.” Famous game show host Bob Barker recited this tagline to conclude every episode of the longest running game show aired, The Price is Right. Although notorious for hosting The Price is Right for thirty-five years, Bob Barker is also a well-known animal rights activist. Barker didn’t become famous without enduring a few speed bumps in his life. However through his dedication, determination, and doggedness, Barker has built a reputation and has made himself an established figure in today’s society.

The article claims that some sort of registry needs to be established. For instance, an abuser could ignore their restrictions after jail time, go to another state, and easily obtain more animals, since shelters have no notice of their past abuse. Also, abusing animals can be linked to many other crimes, such as crimes involving violence, drugs, and property, domestic violence, sex offenses, or even murder. For example, they discussed how after an investigation, serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, was found guilty of abusing animals, which led up to his vicious acts against humans.

Animal abuse can be a precursor to future crimes. Experts have conducted hundreds of studies about the connection between human on animal crimes and human on human crimes. They have determined that people who abuse or neglect their animals tend to move to other crimes as the abuser ages. If people watched these animal abusers they could see the signs that they might commit future crimes. There is a link between murderers and animal abusers. These killers tend to start early; their first victims tend to be the stray cat in their neighborhood or even their neighbor’s dog. Murderers tend to stick to animal victims until they do not get enough pleasure from them and move to larger targets. Child abusers and those who abuse their significant other tend to be the people that hit and kick their pets for no particular reason other than for their own

Every 60 seconds an animal is abused. Dogs, cats, horses, and many other types of animals are being neglected and tortured everyday, yet resulting in few and minor consequences for the perpetrators. Animal abuse is prevalent in the United States and has been an ongoing issue since the 1970's, and prior to. Society as a whole has chosen to avoid the facts and arguments about animal cruelty, because to some it is seen as acceptable and typical. It becomes much more frowned upon when people actually see the results of the cruelty, especially in the media.

There are many animals who deal with abuse everyday, and that is not okay. If an animal is neglected or abused the pet will be taken away and the caretaker will be charged $1,500. Animals are very loyal, such as dogs, dogs are one of the most loyal animals you can own. When abused, they don’t know where they went wrong. They only know that you are mad at them. Animals, such as humans, shouldn’t be abused or neglected. Most animals who are abused or neglected are usually abused unintentionally, but the second most are abused on purpose. The people who abuse animals on purpose sometimes deal with mental illnesses, were abused as children, or have a hard time dealing with stress or anger. Animals are just like humans who have been abused. They are usually skittish and shy. People tend to see animals differently than humans, but they are the same in my eyes. For example, if I locked you in my basement, starved, and beat you, I’d be charged with attempted murder and kidnapping. Pets have the same rights as you to live freely, but people don’t see it. You are able to live on your own and take care of yourself, but they

Animal abuse is something that has been around since ancient times. Even Aristotle, in his own way, abused animals. He believed that animals were merely possessions. Aristotle even wrote in his Great Chain of Being how he believed the species on earth were arranged in a hierarchy, with humans being at the top and animals at the bottom, and that those at the bottom were only meant to serve those above them (“Animal Rights”). However, because they believed in the transmigration of the soul between humans and animals, the Pythagoreans and Neo Platonists thought that people should respect animals and their interests. So while many people may not have treated animals

Furthermore, creating the Animal Bill of Rights not only protects the animals from being abused but, also makes them seem as valuable as a human being. Animals are not valued enough. They are seen as less than humans just because they are animals. That’s the reason as to why there are millions of domestic animals being abused. Rifkin states “ millions of domestic animals raised under the most inhumane conditions”(60). Animals are just important as humans. The Bill of Rights for animals wants to ensure that these kinds of act doesn’t happen. The Bill of Rights for Animals does not only focus on domestic pets, but all species of animals.

Animal rights is the belief that animals have value and are worthy of moral consideration. The idea of animal rights may seem unheard of to many people throughout the world given the fact that globally animals are often abused and killed for a wide variety of socially acceptable reasons. Animals of all types have a right to be free of oppression, confinement, use and abuse by humans.

The study of good and bad, right and wrong, moral principles or value held by a person or society, promoting human welfare, maximizing freedom minimizing pain and suffering is called ethics. The discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings and also the value and moral status of the environment and its non-human contents is called environmental ethics. It considers the ethical relationship between the humans and the environment. Animal and animal rights are the highlighted topic in the environmental ethics.

"Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do” once said Ingrid Newkirk, beloved animal rights activist and cofounder of the largest animal rights organizations, PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. There is a much bigger picture than which lies centered on the human species. Earth is inhabited with a rich variety of about eight million species, most of which have been thought to exist for millions of years before humans evolved. The array of diversity of life on our planet is mind blowing, however,

Both of these topics are serious and can be taken many different ways. Animal abuse is one term for bringing harm to an animal. The dictionary definition of animal abuse is,” The crime of inflicting physical pain, suffering or death on an animal, usually a tame one, beyond necessity for normal discipline.” (1981) This is one of the many definition of this term. Animal abuse can be anything from beating your dog to putting them in fighting with another animal. There have been many stories of animal abuse over the years from dogs being burned, to kittens being used as a chew toy. Putting any animal in harm or causing them pain should be against the

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an animal rights organization that was founded in March 1980. This organization mainly focuses their efforts on the humane treatment of animals and operates as a driving force behind the animal rights movement. Their slogan “animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way” is a testament to their main focus of rescuing and protecting animals from harmful environments.

For many years now the world has seen controversy over the rights of animals and if they think and feel like humans do. Many people see animals as mindless creatures or as food, while others think they have emotions and can feel pain. In other countries animal protection laws are in place that are strictly enforced and seem to work well with the system. In the United States however; some of the animal rights laws are considered to be useless and under-enforced (Animal Legal & Historical Center). More people today are beginning to see that animals should have rights and should be protected by laws and regulations (Animal Legal & Historical Center). Sadly there are many people residing in the United States who don’t take animal rights or protection laws seriously. These people abuse animals in many ways, including food industries that disobey the regulations set in place for the slaughter of animals used for consumption. Luckily for the animals there are people who fight for their rights and the enforcement of laws called animal rights activists.

The ethical debate over whether animals have rights and if so, to what extent, is one that has captivated the greatest of philosophical minds since Aristotle. Philosophical opinion and thinking on the moral worth of animals is varied and without a definitive hard line valuation. Add to this, with the cultural variances seen worldwide, a consensus has not been made as to the degree of moral responsibility there is to defending animal rights. The growing body of knowledge of societal differences and beliefs has made the question whether any unbiased, absolute standards pertaining to values could exist. Cultural relativism is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, practices and behaviors should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than using the standards of their own culture to evaluate judged against the criteria of another. (Shafer-Landau, The Fundamentals of Ethics, p. 121). Even if it runs counter to personal or cultural moral standards social scientists and philosophers alike must also avoid ethnocentrism. Cultural norms concerning the types of meat eaten in many countries, are very different than that of the United States. For example, in China, eating dog meat has been widely accepted and many in China eat dog stew on a regular basis as well as celebrate the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. In some places eating man’s best friend is simply a matter of cultural taste, not a question of moral worth. Although most moral theories do not offer a meaningful

Carl Cohen maintains the assertion that nonhuman animals have no rights. Cohen notes that a major dissimilarity between humans and nonhuman animals lies within the ability to morally self-legislate. The principle of his argument is that because animals lack the capability for autonomous moral decisions, it is therefore not within their ability to respond or utilize any moral entitlement. Cohens ideals could be separated into two premises: