We, as humans, mistreat the animal population. On a smaller scale, the human population wastes domestic and wild, animals for medical testing, for their fur, and for entertainment such as dog fighting. These things may not seem to be globally threatening, yet the constant waste of certain species of animals and the destruction of an animal's natural habitat will lead to the endangerment and eventually the extinction of the species. Furthermore, many people are unaware that the world is currently in the midst of the largest mass extinction in history.
The human population's use of domesticated and wild animals is both horrific and dangerously frivolous. For example, one might examine the usage of vivisection, or animal testing. Over
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For example, Asiatic bears are now on the list of endangered animals due to the fact that the Chinese population restrictively cages them in farms and gives them little to no food or water. Because the Chinese believe that the bile from the bear's gallbladder has healing power, they extract it for the use of curing headache, kidney stones, cirrhosis, and it has been lately used in shampoo and as an aphrodisiac. Furthermore, animals such as the Black Rhino (whose horns are ground into powder for use as a fever-reducing agent in traditional oriental medicines and is carved into dagger handles in the Middle East) and the African Elephant (whose ivory tusks have been hunted for centuries) are declining sharply due to human wants.
Very little has been done to reverse the mass hunting of animals, although there are a few noted instances of the national community joining together to resolve this issue. For instance, in order to control the hunting that was quickly bringing many species of whale onto the list of endangered species, an international whaling convention was organized in 1946. From this, the International Whaling Commission was created and, through it, a scientific committee was set up in order to monitor the whale population and dub species "protected" if they have dwindling populations . Although this step was an initial start, further decreasing populations forced the IWC to prohibit, in 1982, commercial
The fundamental question that defined the content of the article was "What gives us the right to exploit other organisms as we see fit?" (Suzuki, 2008, p.681). Humanity had a long history of using animals in testing due to biological similarities (Suzuki, 2008, p. 680). He put a mirror to people by questioning the ways animals were treated in those scenarios, and if the methods and product were worth the suffering of animals. To do this he looked at examples of scientific studies to alleviate human illness, as well as use of animals for entertainment. By contrasting the harsh realities animals face with the rationalization of their captors, the article underlined not only humanity's unlimited capacity for cruelty but also the factors that allow it to keep on doing the same thing no matter what the truth of the matter is. The article was written for those who those who do not know about the scientific exploitation of animals as well as those who have not in the past seen the idea of captivity and scientific treatment of
From when you are a baby to when you are an adult animal testing is used in your everyday products. From the Pampers you put on as a baby and the Johnson and Johnson you are washed with. To when you are older the Febreeze, Sunsilk, and Gillette you use.( Companies That do Test on Animals) Animal testing surrounds you in every act of life. “The guess is around 100 million animals are used worldwide in animal testing.” (Animal Rights) Animal testing is rooted from natural curiosity. How the insides of a living organism operate and look is an interesting idea. Because of the fact that dissection of humans was illegal by the Roman Church, animals were the second best option for knowledge of living organisms. (Animal Testing) The debate
New England Anti-Vivisection Society’s article displays the facts on how animal testing does not work. Presenting the horrendous cruelty of animal testing methods and the realities of the reliability of the experimentation, the article shows the lack of compatibility between animals and humans. Neavs’s writing shows that testing on animals does not guarantee results in humans. Neavs is reliable and useful because it cites it’s facts to various other sources. Neavs is trying to help end animal cruelty of all forms by providing information about suffering animals and telling people how to get involved or to just donate so the society itself can help the cause more. Using the examples of cruelty and instances of incompatibility between humans
are not able to give consent for this as would be required of a human. Other
Animal testing is a substantial controversy across the nation. According to Rush, Catherine M. et al. “Animal Models to Investigate the Pathogenesis of Rheumatic Heart Disease.” Frontiers in Pediatrics 2 (2014): 116. PMC. Web. 27 Oct. 2016., animal testing has been around for quite some time. Her article states that “Animals have been used repeatedly throughout the history of biomedical research. Early Greek physician-scientists, such as Aristotle, (384 – 322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304 – 258 BC), performed experiments on living animals. Likewise, Galen (129 – 199 / 217 AD), a Greek physician who practiced in Rome and was a giant in the history of medicine, conducted animal experiments to advance the understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain, introduced animal testing as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before applying them to human patients.”
The subject of animal testing for human advantages has always been a debatable topic. It is still undecided whether the use of animals for human benefits is morally right. On the other hand it is scientists and researchers who think that animals are good testing subjects because of various reasons such as preventing harmful products or finding cures to diseases. The two essays “Animal Rights, Human Wrongs” by Tom Regan and “Proud to be Speciesist” by Stephen Rose talk about the concerns of animal rights but display the opposite viewpoints on the use of animals. Regan's argument has a more broad concept to the matter while Rose takes a deeper dive into exacts with an opinionated personal vibe. As the authors continue writing it is obvious
In recent years, people have been taking advantage of superior intellect and manipulating animals for our own benefit. Millions of species, most of which arrived on this planet before humans, are being driven to extinction because of the idea that people are more important than animals. Some go as far as to say that there are three types of life: plants, animals, and humans. Deforestation, over-farming, and over-fishing are destroying hundreds of habitats and throwing off the balance of the food cycle, killing even more species. Animals are also being threatened by industrialization, as the ever increasing emission of greenhouse gases is poisoning the atmosphere, trapping heat and warming the planet. Experiments conducted on animals can leave them permanently disabled or even dead. Some rats are bred for the sole purpose of being experimented on. The worst part is that these animals have no control over the suffering humans are putting them through, nor do they deserve it. These beings are unable to speak for themselves to defend their rights, and humans are interpreting the silence as indifference. If people continue to destroy this planet, then future generations of all species will suffer through no fault of their
The crack of gunfire and the disruptive shouts of the men ripple through the humid, sweltering air, disturbing the once calm atmosphere that had settled over the Sahel desert of Mali in North Africa. The distinct sound of an ear curdling shriek comes next, followed by a distant thump as a large, limp body crashes to the ground. Just in that moment, another endangered animal is slain out of season by the same faceless men that will be back soon for more. Disturbingly enough, sounds like these and the actions that cause happen every day in the world we have made for ourselves and the other species that we share it with. Every year, the rate at which animals are poached increases rapidly and substantially, and although there have been some policies
Most animals are endangered or extinct (no longer on this earth) because of human activity. Some ways animals are dying are eating plastic bags, oil spills in oceans, and getting caught in pretty much anything! We depend on animals for food, clothes and lots of other things. If we don't have animals we couldn't survive.
The animal kingdom, being the kingdom that we interact with the most is becoming threatened by us, the humans. The process of evolution and the survival of the fittest are processes of natural selection. Nature will evolve and get to a point that current animals wont be longer existing, but humans are accelerating and stopping that natural process. Humans are the most responsible when animals become extinct, threatened or endangered. Mainly humans don’t realize the damage they are causing to the environment by making small actions that seem insignificant, but when many humans in the planet do the same, small, insignificant action, it becomes something big and it can affect the environment, animals and nature.
Our treatment of animal can range from extreme pampering to horrible abuse. What we don’t see or don’t care about is that “1.6 million animals are involved around this, 700 cats are shot to model human-injuries to develop surgical techniques on pigs; And testing poison gases on rats and mice. Just in Britain for 2000 there were 2.71 million experimental procedures were carried out on animals. 500,000 of these animals were genetically modified (a 14% increase from 1999). In Australia 3 million animals were used in scientific research in 1998,” (Browning,50), these research programs are still going on today.
I scan my keycard and walk through a set of double doors, past the examination rooms and a door labeled organic waste. I walk into a complex and intricate maze of dark hallways. The doors read canine testing, swine feeding lab and primate testing environment. Upon looking into the dark rooms; one can make out the cages that once held chimpanzees. The sole purpose of this area is animal experimentation. This area, one of the most secure on the campus, has a separate dock and security cameras at every turn. I have had the opportunity to work in the animal labs of one of the largest corporations in the world. This discourse is my argument on animal experimentation and why the state should allow animal testing for the sake of humanity but
Many years ago people used to hunt animals to put on the table now a days it’s played as a sport. There are many ways that animals are killed brutally for sport. There are also such things as
World is ruthless, there are countless animals disappearing around us every day which means they can’t enjoy the sunshine tomorrow. These animals are unlucky that they don’t have control over their own lives. Nowadays, at different corners of the world, various chemicals with hidden danger are being injected into the animals’ body. They are being tested in lots of areas. Mostly being tested for whether a new drug is effective or not. We human call this phenomenon as medical research with animals and it is expressed as a medical research involving animals like mice, pigs, frogs, rabbits and so on. According to the website, there are over 100 million animals are killed in US laboratory for different reasons. This number is very big but it only applies to US, we can’t say how many animals around the world that also cannot escape the same horrible fate. Based on that, it then becomes obvious that people have been debating about whether we should continue using animals in medical research over the recent centuries. Some people who support medical research on animals argue that we couldn’t have made so much progress in different aspects of life if we didn’t have animals in laboratory; while others who are against this approach say that animals should have equals rights as humans. So in my paper, I will present two different positions about this issue and then decide which position I will take and why I do so.
Humans are destructive. Not a lot of us think about how what we do affects the world around us. We almost act like we are the only ones on this planet. We go around polluting and destroying our world with no regard for our actions. The things that live out in the wild are paying the price for it. Every day that passes there is another animal or plant that is placed on an endangered list. This is happening at an alarming rate. Because of man’s desire to expand and conquer their surroundings, there are animals and plants that are on the brink of extinction that will not be around for our kids and future generations to enjoy if something is not done about it now. This problem has been going on for hundreds of years. There