Animals Vs Humans

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Animals deserve rights. Carl Cohen said that animals don't deserve rights, because they lack moral judgement. Animals are more intelligent than he gives them credit for. Anyone who appreciates animals for what they are would recognize this. *Animals need to be humanly raised. They need to be protected from the farmers that lock them up in small pens with just enough food to keep them growing. Paul Hemsworth's studies have shown that pigs that are fearful and hit had lower productivity than those with lots of human contact. Animals, even when they are being raised to become eaten need to be treated properly, because all animals have the ability to suffer and feel pain. No one would ever let a human go through the tortures that some animals go through without making a very big deal about it. Why do we let people get away with mistreating animals? Aren't we technically animals too? Animals should not be put through unnecessary testing. Most testing done on animals is not required by law or even useful. The test results on humans does not always reflect the results tests on animals. Animal testing is plain and simply cruelty. There are many other testing options that can be more reliable and less expensive and do not require animals. These tests include the use of cell cultures, corneal and skin tissue cultures, corneas from eye banks, and computer and mathematical models(Testing). As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year(stop). Animals need legal rights. They need someone to defend them and have some standard of care or they will continue to be treated like machinery. If an animal dies just get a new one to replace it. Why fix it if getting a new one is cheaper? An animal's life doesn't matter so lets treat it like it means nothing and punish the poor defenseless animal. You would never intentionally put

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