Argumentative Essay: The Animal Welfare Act

In the book Animal Farm the animals take over the farm shutting out Mr. Jones. Then the pigs tell the animals that they are more intelligent and know how to read and write so therefore they should be the leaders of the farm. The animals basically a agree without any objections in play. This doesn’t include Snowball and Napoleon. These two are always fighting and debating about what needs to be done. Which all leads to the pigs gaining power.

According to Gallup.com a third of Americans want animals to have the same rights as people. The Animal Bill of Right implies that animals have the right to be free from exploitation and cruelty, It also prohibits laboratory animals to be used for research. Animals will also have healthy diets and medical care. It will also provide them with an environment that satisfies their needs. I do not believe we need a Bill of Rights for animals. This would not only be extreme but it will affect human culture, medical research, and cost of food

Animal testing has been one of the issues that people are fighting overtime because of its moral. Even though some results of tests are successful on people, many people are still fighting for the animal’s rights. They believe that animals should have their own rights to live a free life where they belong, just like their species. In scientists point of view, animals have been one of the main subjects to test on, but a lot of them are currently looking forward to use and develop alternatives for the cruel act of animal testing.

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.

Some organizations such as FFA do not support PETA and as result PETA tries to demoralize and discourage FFA members that what we are doing in our program is morally wrong and unjust. Sure this comes as a big shocker that PETA can't stand the FFA it is one of the largest student led organizations in the world so they may feel a little threatened. Speaking as a current FFA member I can strongly say that PETA does not understand what the FFA does for the world, chapters and individuals around the world. If you didn’t know FFA stands for FFA stands for Future Farmers of America.

Just in the United States, “there are about 26 million different species, from dogs to birds, being used every year for medical and science related testing” (“Animals in Science / Research”). Throughout the process of testing, “monkeys are addicted to drugs, cats are deafened and have holes drilled into their skulls, sheep and pigs have their skin burned off, and rats have their spinal cords crushed” (“Animals in Medical Experiments”). As a result, animals face cruel conditions and have no way of fighting back. Although medical testings on animals may cure the deadliest diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis, the abuse and mistreatment these animals face while testing medicines should be deemed inhumane, and such practices should be banned in the United States.

Animal testing has helped us for years discover cures for sickness in humans and sometimes even animals. But as long as they test the animals humanely, animals can be tortured with pain from the testing. However many efforts are being made to reduce the testing to a minimum. Scientists know that without the tests they wouldn’t know how to check the safety of new drugs.

I had the privilege of interviewing Tracy Ziegelhofer, who for fifteen years has been a manager for Envigo, an international private company that works to advance pharmaceutical development, modern therapies, and test the toxicity and safety of substances through animal testing. She reassured me that the stereotype animal testing has been given could not be more false. Animals who are used for testing are specifically bred for this purpose; they are not taken out of their natural habitats (APSPhysiology). Additionally, of the 26 million animals tested each year (ProCon Team), mice and rats account for more than ninety percent, where large animals such as pigs, dogs, and primates make up the remainder (Ziegelhofer). After successfully testing cardiovascular devices for humans on a beagle, Ms. Ziegelhofer adopted the dog, informing me that many animals are “retired” after testing and are put up for adoption. Animals who exhibit pain are humanely euthanized following an experiment (Woods). She also described the quality of life for laboratory animals. “All the animals are very socialized,” she said, “They have plenty of toys to enjoy playing with, and of course they have beds for relaxing, and they always have food available to them,” she continued (Ziegelhofer). Regarding what laboratories can and cannot do, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have

When it comes to the rights of animals it can be very controversial. On one hand people see animal rights as ridiculous and unnecessary. And on the other there are many people that take animal rights extremely seriously and some even go as far as to think that they should have the same rights as humans. While I can view this from both sides I stand somewhere in the middle, because I don’t think animals should have the same right as humans, but I do think that they should have some rights.

Animal testing is inhuman. Animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process. Rabbits have their eyes held open for the Draize eye test which is used to test shampoo the rabbits they test on can’t blink away the products in the testing. Animals are different from humans making them poor test subjects. The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings.In the 1950s a sleeping pill thalidomide, which caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities, was tested on animals prior to its commercial release.Animal testing is cruel and isn’t needed because animals are different from people and some tests prove they don’t really

Animal welfare versus animal rights is very controversial, but yet interesting subject. There is a huge debate between Animal Rights activists and Animal Welfare activists. Animal Welfare refers to the state of the animal; the treatment that an animal receives is covered by other terms such as animal care,animal husbandry, and humane treatment. Animal Welfare activists believe that animals should be treated humanely and fairly, but do not have the same rights as humans. Animal Rights is a belief that animals have the right to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. Animal Rights activists do not distinguish between human and animals. They believe that there is no rational difference between an animal's

Animal testing is used internationally to understand and create medicines and to test the safety of products. Almost 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually worldwide, an estimated eight million of which are subjects in experiments involving pain while at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers (Andre & Velasquez, 1988). Clearly these experimentations are reducing the quality of life for these animals, and as such there has been growing criticism of animal testing and the ethical questions that arise when studying these experiments. There is also a concern for the consequential threats to scientific and biomedical progress that they bring, however alternative testing methods have produced equally effective results therefore ending the debate over whether such experiments are necessary (“Animal experimentation”, 2014). Overall, animal testing is unethical and must be stopped as it is immoral to inflict suffering on non-consenting sentient beings and there are reasonable and successful alternatives available.

First of all, Most of the animal tests do not work on humans. The People the ethical treatment of animals (PETA) said that 92 out of 100 experiments for drugs do not even work on humans. Money is put into these experiments while they could find other tests that have better results. They are just wasting money

Animals, of course, aren’t the only ones who suffer from all the tests human beings do. After data has been collected and made into a suitable drug it is given and tested by humans. Due to the inaccuracy of the information gained from animal testing, more than 100,000 humans lose their lives after taking these drugs (How Many Animals Are Used). Other tests performed on animals are for potential carcinogens. A carcinogen is a substance capable of causing cancer in living tissue. In order to perform these tests, the victims subjected to the experiments are injected with a carcinogen every two years. Other (even more inhumane) experiments performed to test carcinogens involve killing pregnant animals and testing their fetuses. Every research lab that tests on animals has its own breeding facilities (Human Illness Don’t Exist In Animals).

Sasha: And the fact that we treat these animals based on intelligence is also ridiculous. Just because a dog does not understand what it means to vote, society should not consider it less intelligent than us. It is a living thing that deserves the best life.