...Animal Cosmetic Testing I have always been an animal lover and felt it was important for animals to have a voice. As they cannot speak, in my view because people allow the use of animals for cosmetic testing, Using animals to test cosmetic products by injecting large doses into eyes is painful and cause agony, anguish, suffering, and is a practice of animal cruelty(Thiroux&Krasemann,2014 p.352) Animals do have feelings and will cry when they are being hurt. You can see it in the way that they act. They suffer needlessly for vanity reasons and this should not be the case. In my view because people allow the use of animals for cosmetic testing, I believe that it is absolutely immoral that any kind of testing should be done as their must be another way to solve this inhumane treatment...
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...Reasoning Instructor Galen Johnson June 23, 2014 \ Animals: Deserving of Utilitarianism? 1 Utilitarianism is best defined as given a choice between two acts, the one that creates greater happiness for the greatest number of people should be chosen. This should be applied to non-human beings as well. Animals are essential in our everyday lives. They provide companionship, nourishment for our bodies and can provide amazement to our eyes when seen in their natural habitat. They are important in human life. They deserve respect. We as the superior being should make decisions for non-humans based on the utilitarianism approach creating greater happiness or good for the greater numbers. Our decisions based on this approach when making choices where non-humans are concerned will be a beneficial choice for both humans and animals. So what do humans and animals have in common? René Descartes, for instance, regarded animals as simply “physical bodies that lacked minds or souls; thus, animals were similar to organic machines.” (Mosser, 2013) This type of thought is also coincides with Western and Christian thinking. That is, all is ranked from highest to lowest. God and Angels are the highest with humans, animals and plants to follow in order. Present day this is conflicting...
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...implications of product testing and experimentation on animals have become a very controversial topic in recent years. Some companies choose to test their products on animals before putting them on the market for consumption by the general public. Other companies experiment on animals in hopes of learning new information that could improve the quality or longevity of human lives. Even though some companies have already changed their policies regarding experimentation on animals, there are still many well-known companies that choose to engage in this practise. Some of the most well-known companies that have not changed their policies regarding product testing on animals include Aveeno, Clorox, Head and Shoulders and Tide. These companies...
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...its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” (qtd. in Mendoza). Today, some of the world’s most advanced countries exploit animals for cosmetic testing. Cosmetic animal testing should be illegal due to it being inhumane, having inaccurate test results, and alternative testing methods are available. First, animal testing is inhumane because it causes animals a lot of pain and permanently damages their bodies. A common way to test chemicals is the Draize test. During this procedure chemicals such as toluene are dropped into rabbits’ eyes and causes severe pain and blindness (Moran and Locke). Testing chemicals on animals’ skin is also common. Exposure to large...
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...physically and emotionally damaged animals. Animals who will never have the chance to truly live. Life becomes dreadful when one never knows the next time he or she will be injected with peculiar chemicals or concoctions. These foreign substances can cause complications in all organisms. Annually, over 100 billion animals are killed each year from testing in laboratories. This number does not include those who are have developed disabilities....
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...Research on animals, either dead or alive, is useless. The words “animal” and “research” both revolve around the ‘golden rule’. Respect for each other is key to living. It doesn't matter if you are human, animal, plant, or just an object (Ball, Norris 35-44). Everything on Earth has an effect. Animals are being hurt, neglected, and abused everyday (Singer 17-25). For all these reasons, Animals should not be used for scientific, cosmetic, or commercial testing. First, animals that undergo testing are put through both physical and emotional pain everyday. The emotional pain these animals are put through at a young age is jaw dropping. Millions of animals every year are taken prematurely from their mothers or caregivers (Spun 1). Animals would have grown to help the environment and humans, but instead, being taken away at such an early age, never had the chance to experience what some can (PETA 1). Medical students have learned what they need without the use of animals, which proves more qualified scientists can too (PETA 1). Most animals that are used for testing are rarely exposed to daylight or proper social and mental care because of the tiny enclosures they are kept in (Spun 1). The need for sunlight, especially at an early age,...
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...Science defines human life as a characteristic that exhibit a process with organization, growth, adaptation, etc.; however, ancient sages told people human life is extremely valuable and sacred, as a religious doctrine in the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not kill.” Moreover, when people talk about ethics, they will think about rules to differentiate right and wrong. It might be wise maxims of Confucius or religious beliefs. The most general way to define “ethics” is that “moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior” (American English in Oxford Dictionary). Bioethics is a pretty young interdisciplinary study, which is considered with ethical questions related to the relationships among human beings, animals, and environments in the late twentieth century. Based on this, bioethics derived three main subdisciplines, which are medical ethics, animal ethics, and environmental ethics. Although each sub-discipline has particular study area in bioethics, there still are overlaps of ethical considerations and approaches. This makes it difficult to easily discuss ethics questions such as stem cell research, xenotransplantation, the ethical status of animals and the ethical status of the environment. Further discussion about the vital issue of moral status solutions is necessary at the same time. In the rapid development of the natural sciences and biotechnology has greatly promoted better living conditions and improve the living standards of people around the world...
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...Animal Testing: Pros and Cons An Exploratory Research Paper Dallin P. Curtis Arizona State University Main Body "There will come a day when such men as myself will view the slaughter of innocent creatures as horrible a crime as the murder of his fellow man- Our task must be to free ourselves- by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature and its beauty." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Animal testing is an issue in today's general public that, regardless if anybody understands it, does influence each of us. Is some some testing needed by law? Medical advances, for example, transplants, antibodies, and drugs were all tried on animals before they were utilized on people. However, does government law guarantee that creatures utilized as a part of examination and testing are dealt with compassionately? Today there are a lot of individuals who are against animal testing in lab research. Frequently asking what are other options for utilizing animals as a part of therapeutic studies? Animal testing is expected to advance the wellbeing of people, yet the procedures often include hurting innocent creatures. The individuals who are for animal testing for the most part bolster investigative examination and medical advancement. The two principle ideals with respect to animal testing is that it is heartless and oppressive to creatures, while others feel that there are insufficient willing individuals that organizations need to better help...
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...English 1120 1 October 2015 Should animals be used for scientific research? How many of you look at that pill you’re taking for that migraine or for that nasty sinus infection that has taken you down for the count and know that the animals used in the research are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, withheld food and water, burned and given other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study the effects and treatment? They have even killed by asphyxiation, decapitation, and neck breaking stating they will be able to transfer the good of all of this barbaric treatment to help humans and animals. Animals don’t deserve to be in pain and given diseases with a death sentence to try to prove that a certain medicine or product might work. Animals have feelings just like us humans. I challenge you to tell or even show me that your dog or cat does not have feelings or its own personality. You can’t do it. Why would that cat run or dog go curl up under a table when you yell at them for doing something wrong? Because, they have feelings and know right from wrong. They were taught this from a young age just like we teach our own children to behave. There are alternative testing methods in today’s world that can replace the need for animal use. There are labs that do studying of cell structures in a petri dish. In-Vitro (in glass) testing. This type of testing can produce more relevant results than animal testing because human cells can be used....
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...Humans have used animals for different uses. They have been used for food, clothing farm work and a variety of other uses. So using them to test new medical advances is different. Animal testing for medical purpose help saves lives and future generations. Animal testing should be continued for the use within the medical field. The ancient Greeks believed that animals were created by the gods to be used however people wish. The Bible says God gave man dominions “over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping things that creeps on the earth” (Genesis 9:1-3). The ancient Greeks and Romans influenced the laws of western civilization. The western civilization had no laws saying what you could not do to an animal no matter how cruel or unnecessary the act was (Thorburn). To some people animals have no rights at all while to others animals have rights and should not fell unnecessary pain and suffering. The people who believe animals have no rights; and use them just for their benefits but there is a line that should not be crossed animals do have feelings and some rights. The new movement of animal right groups has some good points like human like primates should not be used in testing like chimpanzees. The first law put in place by western civilizations was in the Massachusetts Bay colony. The law states that it is illegal to exercise any tyranny or cruelty towards any animal which are kept for use by humans...
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...of Heart About Animals “ by Jeremy Rifkin and “ Hooked on a Myth “, by Victoria Brathwaite, both authors attempt to persuade their audience to rethink their opinions on if we should give animals rights.The authors state good reasons why we should give animal rights. They also make the audience question many important things on how we should treat our animals. Another good point they state in the article is if we do decide to give animal rights will this affect the way we live? This topic is very iffy because we can side on either sides based on reasoning. Researchers have found evidence on how our fellow creatures are similar to us than we ever thought. Does this mean we have to treat our animals with more respect and do you think they deserve a Bill of...
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...Sanchez April 27, 2008 Animal Cruelty Imagine being a spectator of the most gruesome and inhumane act known to man. Imagine staring deep into a dog’s eye, a dog that is about to embark on the journey of his life. For many animals, including dogs, cats, and farm animals, death is the only destination listed on their life itinerary. Throughout the United states and the rest of the world, animals are being gruesomely cut up and skinned, being experimented on for research, and mainly being mistreated for the most important source of human pleasure. Money to most means success, especially industries like bio-medical research, farming industries, and entertainment; companies in this industry are willing to do anything in their power to gain profit and power, including taking lives of creatures, known as animals. Exploitation according to the Encarta World English Dictionary is “the use of development of something to produce a benefit”. That “something” in this case infers animals. As many as 115 million animals are tested and executed in U.S. laboratories every year. The sad truth about all the inhumane research experimenters are carrying on is that it is paid by the typical American taxpayer without their consent. That’s right, the experiments including the injection of chemicals into rat’s stomachs, the isolation chambers where monkeys are separated from their mothers, and the enhancing of a dogs thigh muscle tissue is all made available by animal product consumers. All those...
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...different from a human being to a wild animal. We think, we feel, and we see, we all have a life. An animal poked, prodded, and abused is no different from a person being mishandled. Happiness and sadness are two major emotions both animal and human both experience, weather we were born in a jungle or a hospital. The Department of Agriculture has approved the importation of 37 marmosets for experiments in laboratories. We don't know precisely what's in store for these creatures but you can be sure it's likely to be something that turns your stomach. Sydney University in recent years used marmosets in experiments in which their eyes were removed for testing and the animals were put down. About 92% of experimental...
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...Animal Cruelty It’s dark, quiet, and you’re all by yourself. You whine and yell for help but nobody seems to hear you. The people you thought were your family abandoned you, left you all alone in a small confined cage. There is no place to use the bathroom, other than where you stand. The awful stench of your faeces grows worse and worse each second. The only food they left you with, you ate in the first day. Now the only thing keeping you alive is your desperation to eat and drink your own waste and the will to survive. You are a dog left to die by its owners, with the thought that you are lower than humans and have no real importance or worth. I have always been an animal lover and it has always disgusted me to see an animal being mistreated. Even when I am watching a movie and an animal gets hurt I always cringe with sadness. I remember I had these neighbors; we were good friends with them. They always wanted to have a dog but either they never had the money to take care of a pet or they just did not know how. That never stopped them from constantly having a dog. I remember two specific dogs they had, one was a mixed bulldog, Daisy, and the other was a Jack Russell Terrier, Jack. Daisy was such a beautiful sweet dog, but the way she was treated was poor. If they did not have any dog food they would feed her cereal and milk. They also considered spraying her with a hose while she ran around in the backyard a bath. The worst thing that happened to her was that one day...
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...Shop #1 1. In this case, how does The Body Shop address the four components of social responsibility? In the Body Shop, what tensions among these components were at work? Economic- The Body Shop used inexpensive ingredients in the products offered. There was also a recycle program where the customers could return used bottles and receive a discount which would save the company money by not having to buy more supplies. The Body Shop also created a company with strong values that customers stood by which was the reason their success. Legal- the Body Shop avoided animal testing and used all natural ingredients to avoid any lawsuits. They knew the products were safe since people have been using them for years. Ethical- Anita Roddick, owner of The Body Shop, reflected her personal ethical beliefs into her work. She was against animal testing and made a great effort to make sure her company and the suppliers also felt the same way. She also wanted her employees to fit a certain image and hired accordingly, some could argue this can cause some ethical problems. Philanthropic- The mission statement of The Body Shop is “To dedicate our business to the pursuit of social and environmental change” and the entire company was based around this. They contributed a part of their earnings to environmental change. Roddick shared her information about certain products with other companies in hopes of reducing animal testing. She preached to her customers about animal rights, environmental causes...
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