Orcas in Captivity Have you ever been to SeaWorld and watched the show they do with the Orcas? I bet you never fully paid attention to how depressed this wonderful animals looks, because you aren't focused on how they feel only how you do. SeaWorld has 23 Orcas placed in three different parks in America. Overall there is 55 known Orcas in captivity in the world, and there is known to 144 Orcas that have been taken from the wild, and most of them are dead now due to being in captivity. Keeping orcas in captivity is bad for health reasons, because it causes stress problems they would never have when living in the wild.
Millions of animals are poisoned, blinded and killed every year in out-dated product tests for cosmetics, household-cleaning products, personal-care products, and even fruit juices. Imagine being an animal in a laboratory, having no control over any aspect of your life, living inside a locked closet, not choosing when and what you eat, what you do with your time or even deciding when the lights go on and off. This would be your life; deprivation, isolation, misery. Studies have shown that there are various biological differences between humans and animals in the way each react to chemicals, resulting in unreliable data and the health of consumers compromised for scientific values. Tests showed that when 12 substances were tested on rabbit and human skin only two out of twelve results were similar.
were used for testing in that year alone. And this number does not even include experiments on rats, birds and mice because the government does not require the companies to report those tests. Mice, rats and birds make up 90% of the animals in an average lab; imagine the total number of animals used in laboratory research. That is a lot. Unfortunately, the number of animals tested continues to increase every year at an alarming rate.
A very large percentage of tests conducted on animals have been proven to be futile. Often funding is put into animal testing, but the results do not correlate with human beings. Scientists have given great amounts of their time and effort attempting to find cures for cancer in rodents, but so far have been unable to imitate human cancer in any animal or even come close to finding a cure (Overton 1). Most diseases are unique to a specific species, and this is why using animals to test human medications usually fails. Animal testing has also been proven to be very inaccurate.
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.
No one tried to replace the breastplates and the helmets. So whenever the Roman soldiers went out and fought in war they were exposed to wounds because of no armor and thus think about running and not fighting. Another good well known reason for the decline of the Roman empire was the invasions made by the many different invaders, especially the huns. Due to the decline in the Roman empire there was barely anyone to protect the Roman empire. The huns were ruthless killers.
An estimated 10% of these specimens receive absolutely no anesthesia. Animal testing is an extremely controversial topic. In fact, it is so controversial that the biases on either side of the spectrum may skew the true definition of the practice. Those against animal testing generally argue that it is nothing more than blatant cruelty and the causation of pointless suffering of living creatures. Those for it tend to define it as using animals to benefit humans and save lives.
Disadvantages of Animals in Captivity Elizabeth Weise in her journal for International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) stated that approximately 18000 more species on the top list of endangered wild animals and 1940 species of the latter are listed as critically endangered wildlife (E.Weise,2011)¹. However, conservation is not the main reason for keeping animals in captivity. For thousands of years, animals have lived without being captivated by human. Keeping animals in captivity have a lot of disadvantages such as animal abuse, limits animals’ freedom and changes in animal behaviors. Firstly, keeping animals in captivity promotes animal abuse.
Our animals are being captured, caged and confined on vessels, packed in hundreds, if not thousands as they travel for weeks across the seas, often deprived of food and water. Sounds familiar? Well it certainly wasn’t much different from when Africans were brought into America as cheap slaves. In front of the government and all my parliamentary colleagues here today, I would like to say that we, as the government, are failing to ensure the welfare of animals being exported from Australia as sheep and cattle continue to suffer inhumane treatment under the government's live export supply chain assurance system. This system is flawed as it was never designed to ensure animal welfare.
I actually did take allot from doing this assignment. Most important of them would have to be the numbers of animals killed annually due to the animal testing. I had clearly underestimated by a long shot. I did not and never will change my perspective on animal testing. I do see the advantages for medicinal purposes and wish there would be more regulations ensuring animal rights, but cosmetics and household items are completely unnecessary.