The Importance Of Animal Rights

Animals are living creatures with feelings, emotions, and intelligence. We even have animals as pets because they bring us joy, love, affection, and give people company when people find themselves alone. Animals do not have voices to express their feelings and demand respect so we humans often take advantage of them. We share a world with many different species. Over time Humans have gained power over all living creatures and have took away from others. Humans have full control of many situations and have the upper hand in many cases. I feel that animals deserve respect, and deserve laws in order to protect them. If a human kills another human, that human will go to jail

Introduction, animals that are being tested safety of their products that’s been a subject of an intense debate for over 10 years. While, a lot of people that alleged animals, the remained animals are being subjugated by the research cosmetics companies all over the country/all over the world. Even though, the scientists frequently profit from animal research, I don’t think all the suffering, the pain, and the animals dying are worth just trying find out the human benefits from the products.

Whether we think about it or not, our views on animal rights affect the choices we make every day from the foods we eat, the clothes we wear, the products we use on our skin, the medicine we take, and even the pets we may or may not keep in our home. Each of these choices hinge on our views of animal rights. Although animal rights are not a new issue we are facing here in the U.S., recent events have brought them back into the foreground. News stories like the slaying of Cecil the lion, and Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo in this past year have brought renewed interest to those of all ages thanks to social media and national press time.

There are many different views on animal rights, according to Philosopher Tom Regan who is a strong believer on animal rights and why they deserve not to be harmed. He wrote that the fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, that they are here for us-to be eaten, surgically manipulated or exploited for sports or money. Once we accept this view of animals- as our resources- the rest is as predictable as it is regrettable. If we are taught that animals have no moral status it can affect our understanding on their reasoning of life. Regan Kantians belief was animals have the same rights as humans, they too feel pain and suffering. Singer who is a Utilitarian believes human beings are of value so therefore animal rights have no importance. There are positive and negative arguments on both ends.

Animal cruelty is a nationwide problem rapidly growing in today’s society. Animals are being beaten and starved every day and millions of helpless animals die each year because of heartless owners. These abused animals need to be fought for because they have as much right to live happily too. Animals don’t deserve to be tortured or harmed in any kind of way; they are poor and defenseless creatures. Many people who become animal owners do so because they love animals and want to give them a forever home. Animal Cruelty is very upsetting and wrong. Animal rights laws apply to all sorts of animals from dogs to farm animals. Some people may think that animal abuse is only defined by physically hitting an animal. Animal abuse is much more than physical abuse.

I believe that animals should be treated just as well as humans. "When it comes to feelings like pain, hunger, and thirst, “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy," says Ingrid Newkirk. Animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. Because animals have feelings and are much like humans, they deserve to have rights just like people do.

It seems that nowadays there are activists for more causes than can be counted, but one cause that stands out most in today's times is animal activism. Animal rights activists believe that animals other than humans should be allowed to live their lives without any suffering and should not be considered anyone's property. In today's society animals suffer quite a bit through many different ways, most caused by humans, such as animal testing, factory farms, fur farms and even pollution. Although there are a lot of efforts being put out to stop these monstrosities by many animal rights groups and even individuals.

Do you know that animals are different from human? According to (Lin, 2014) “many animal activists point to the publication of “Animal Liberation” in 1975 as the catalyst for the modern American animal rights movement.” Also, “1980 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded.” In (Mother Nature Network, 2008) points out that “It wasn't until 1822 that animal-protectionists won their first public victory”, so after that people will think what is the definition of animal rights movements according to http://www.thefreedictionary.com “The right to humane treatment claimed on behalf of animals, especially the right to be treated as persons or more like persons under the law.” Also, in (Opposing Viewpoints, 2011) the animal rights

Abraham Lincoln once said, “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Many animal activists see a strong comparison between animals used for research or entertainment and slaves (Day, 1994). Every year millions of animals are killed while being used for testing and entertainment. Some may say that animals do not have emotions so using them for these types of activities is acceptable. In spite of that, a huge question that arises is whether or not animals should have rights. This appears to be a controversial topic, considering that some people believe activities such as circuses, rodeos, and testing on animals is completely fine. It is evident that these people are unaware of

Animal and human rights come down to one fundamental right: the right to be treated with respect as an individual with inherent value. At its core, human ethics is based on the sole value of the individual human: The moral worth of any one human being is not to be calculated by how useful that person is in advancing the interest of humanity. To treat humans in ways that do not honor their independent value or to demean their value is to violate the most basic of human rights: the right of each person to be treated with respect and

that level. Every day, I hear tons of news and tragic stories of animal living in captivity, how they suffered to amuse human, how they live without care in unqualified conditions. Detroit Zoo mentioned in the article “Detroit Journal; Ripples of Controversy after a Chimp Drowns” was opposed by letting many chimps drown because of the moat they use for chimp exhibit. The other case is Lincoln Park Zoo which was drawing criticism from animal right activists by the dead of nine animals in the short time. Although zoo officials pointed out many excuses to protect themselves, animal right activists argued that inappropriate space and climate change were the main causes of animal deaths. They defended animal died because of being left outside under the cold weather and lacking of space for living. I do not mean to criticize all the zoos, but it is undeniable that many animals are suffering in captivity. According to Ferkenhoff in the article “In Chicago, Animal Deaths Put Spotlight on Zoo,” $200 million has been investigated over the past decade to develop living conditions of animals in The Lincoln Park Zoo; however, animals were still found death because of insufficient space. If the zoos cared more for animals instead of focusing on their economic value, their life would be much better.

Animals all over the globe are being abused and mistreated on an everyday basis by people who have no sympathy for them. In addition, not as many people are striving to protect these animals, whether they are farm, wildlife, or domestic animals. Should animals of every kind have some sort of “Bill of Rights”? A way of laws protecting animals, separating them from the cruel and giving them more rights than they already have. I will be asserting why animals do need a “Bill of Rights” and I will be explaining the positive and negative outcomes of what may happen if animals do actually get fundamental rights and privileges.

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

they thought that because animals were getting abused or worse. And at some point other people thought that other people should be treated differently, so they made them into slaves and they starved them and those people knew how animals felt because they were treated like that too. Soon people protested that they should stop making them into slaves and they protested about animal rights too so they can treat them differently and they finally stopped and some people treated animals differently. I wanted to learn more about animal rights because I wanted to know if people protested and if anybody cared. And when I researched animal rights, it said that when people protested some people thought of animals differently and it said that still a lot of people don’t care, but at least some people care. Do you know what people do to elephants, monkeys, and other animals if they do a trick wrong? Well,people hit them or starve them if they do the trick wrong, I think they should just make the animals practice more, because what they’re doing is wrong. Do you know why it’s bad that people throw their trash on the streets? It’s bad to throw trash on the streets because animals can eat it and maybe even plastic,if they’re very hungry, and soon they end up dying so please don’t throw your trash on the streets.I think that animal rights can be solved because it is already working, like people stopped other people

Animals Rights is a big discussion that has been around for while. Many argue since animals aren’t human, it doesn’t matter how they are treated or taken care of. There are others that do care how our animals are treated and taken care of. Animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. This topic has been around for a while but has become more absolute (Environmental Encyclopedia, Opposing Viewpoint). Animal rights involves personal, social, legal, religious, cultural values, belief, and decisions. This alone causes the viewpoint to vary based on many factors. Add in the many benefits animals have for humans and the lines are blurred further. Animals should be treated humanely as they are living breathing beings and are aware of their lives. Animals have similar levels of biological complexity, they make conscious choices, and they are conscious and aware they exist.