According to Mayra Calvani in her journal in World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) mentioned that in Latin America and Europe, around 250,000 bulls die per year due to tortured and killed for entertainment purpose especially in bullfighting. (M.Calvani, 2008)². This shows that, keeping animals for entertainment purposes promotes animal abuse. Secondly, captivity also takes away animals’ freedom. Many of wild animals cannot cope with situation that they are taken from their natural habitats and placed in captivity.
Unfortunately, the number of animals tested continues to increase every year at an alarming rate. During these tests, millions of animals are blinded, poisoned or even killed each year. We cannot let this fate occur to the defenseless creatures! Would you like this to happen to your pet? Animal experimenting is cruel, harmful and inhumane; it is now and it always will be.
Animal Liberation By: Peter Singer “Animal Liberation” is a novel highlighting the ignorance of people about what animals go through in order to fulfill whatever humans need. Whether it is meals or experimentation, millions of animals suffer each year. The author really goes the extra mile to try to make the reader see his point of view by being descriptive in his explanations of the types of pain animals feel. For example, Bunnies are used to test products for eye irritation by placing them in a chamber with only their heads exposed and dropping the product into their eyes. The eyes of the bunnies often become irritated, infected, and even blind.
Conducting experiments on animals for medical improvement has always been a highly controversial issue. Animal rights organisations such as PETA question the legitimacy of it, arguing that it is cruel and unacceptable while the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki states clearly that human trials should be preceded by tests on animals if possible. In this case, though I commiserate the experimented animals, I support animal testings as they are vital to medical advancements for the sake of human race. Nearly all medical breakthroughs over the recent decades were based on the ground of animal testing. The polio vaccine were mainly tested on monkeys for amelioration.
[animal-testing.procon.org] Researchers in Aston University have made it known that it is not worth taking the lives of these animals for testing, because the things we’re trying to make happen with human bodies is very different from the animal body. The anatomic, metabolic, and cellular differences between animals and people make animals poor models for human beings. There is a big percentage from the 1950’s up till now that animal testing is flawed by not being correct when it is given to the people it is for. So why not just stop the animal experiments that are not just killing, but also torturing the animals.
Regardless of intelligence, their life still has value to them. Use of animals clearly violates animals’ right to live without suffering pain or emotional distress. A range of household products including cosmetics and cleaners are routinely tested on animals to determine how safe the products are for human use. Some of these animals are subjected to pain in tests of skin or eye irritancy; others are killed while establishing the lethal dose of chemical products. In animal experiments, animals can be burned, cut, mutilated, poisoned, turned into drug addicts or alcoholics, given diseases such as cancer or arthritis, crippled, blinded, starved, and
In circuses they are forced to tricks that are almost impossible for them to do but they have to do it or they’ll get whipped. Besides being tortured for our entertainment, they also suffer in their “home.” They spend 96 percent of their lives in chains or cages. Out of the whole year, 11 months they travel long distances in box cars that do not have climate control; they eat, sleep and “use the restroom” in that same cage the whole time they are in there. When they get their breaks and are able to finally go outside, they are under extreme discipline that includes whipping, hitting, poking, and shocking with electrical pods. The USDA even sets minimum standards of care, unfortunately most of these places are not inspected.
Many shelters across North America provide a place to take in stray and lost animals. This is where animals are kept for short periods of time until later the decision it made to euthanizing the animal. In the society we live in the demand of breeding of designer breeds of dogs is high. Everyone wants the latest breed of dogs leaving many of the unwanted pets homeless. This isn’t the case most of dogs are deemed unadoptable because the lack social skills and forced in surviving on their own.
Someone finds the abandoned animal and turns him over to a local veterinarian. The animal will get the best treatment and recover...but, the question is, should someone be prosecuted because of the injuries, and the neglect which animal sustained? Should the animal have rights? Non-human animals bleed, they have a heart, they have brains, they feel pain and lastly, they are God's children. According to Bekoff, Michael Mountain published a summary of a recent meeting held in Cambridge, England at which; science leaders have reached a critical consensus: Humans are not the only conscious beings; other animals, specifically mammals and birds, are indeed conscious, too (n.p.).
Large number of animals are killed in the laboratory every day. These experiments also delivers inaccurate results, and always spread new diseases. Large numbers of animals are severely suffered and killed in laboratories for many company products. They are rudely dragged out of the cold, hard steel cage, thrown into the laboratory and being cutted alive, smothered with cosmetics products and even forced to smoke cigarette, these cruel experiments lost the animal‘s ability to see, hear and smell. Research shows approximately a hundred million animals were killed each year, and 95% of the animals had suffered animal testing, Animal testing must stop to prevent numerous number of animals being abused and killed.