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Animal Testing Is Cruel And Inhumane Essay

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This paper addresses animal activists who strongly believe that animal testing is cruel and inhumane act. My audiences are already aware of the situation where tremendous amount of animals are harmed and some even killed from animal testing and experiments. Since they lean towards the side of arguments that disapproves animal testing, my purpose of writing this essay is to at least let my primary audiences to understand and accept the fundamental reasons for conducting animal testing.
Animal Rights or Medical Research According to Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory in mid 1850s, he suggests that animals could serve as effective models to facilitate biological understanding in humans. Humans has used animals as subjects for experiments and researches …show more content…

From the article “Animals and Ethics” by Ruth Cigman, Aristotle, a philosopher of education, who is the first natural scientist to conduct animal testing said, “Plants exist for animals, and animals exist for humans” (35). This saying can be interpreted as humans having dominant power over all living species, and us using animals for our needs can be justified due to the providence of nature. Thereby, it is okay to assume that humans have power over animals to use them as the subject to animal experiments. Apart from the providence of nature, National Geographic’s animal scientist Peter Miller’s essay “ Do Animals Have Interest Worthy of Our Moral Interest?” states even in a situation that directly affects humans survival, only human can take “responsibility” of killing other species (320). Bearing in mind that all living species are in food web where dominant figures take advantage of weaker figures, using weaker figures like animals, humans using animals as a way to benefit their survival can not be seen as a sense of

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