Animal Rights
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Since the 1960s animal rights organizations around the world have tried to make people aware of the cruelty suffered by animals used for laboratory research. Just in the U.S.A. alone, between 25 and 50 million animals are killed in laboratories each year. Hundreds of species are used including mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats , dogs, monkeys, chimpanzees, and many more.
These animals must endure many kinds of painful procedures. They are burned, starved, irradiated, shocked, mutilated, kept in isolation, poisoned, drugged, electrocuted, just to name a few things which can happen to them.
Researchers do these things to animals because they say it will make our lives better. But studies conducted by animal rights groups have shown that the scientific benefits of animal experimentation are very limited.
It is true that people are living longer today than ever before. But most of the increase of our life expectancy is due to better sanitation and improvements in our lifestyle, NOT through research using laboratory animals.
In fact, sometimes animal experiments can lead to some tragic results. Many drugs that have been shown to be safe in laboratory animals have later seriously injured or killed people. These events are not widely publicized by medical researchers; if anything, they are usually kept secret.
Recently, one particular drug, Fialuridine, killed a number of people in a clinical trial after it had been tried on different kinds of animals and was reported by reseachers to be "safe."
Household products which are dangerous to humans are first tested on animals before they go on the market. These safety tests can be horrifying procedures. Liquids which can cause blindness in humans are placed in the eyes of restrained rabbits. The rabbits are unable to rub their eyes or give themselves any kind of relief. Poisons are applied to the bare skin of shaved animals. Animals are force-fed huge quantities of the test products until half or all of them die.
Most people are not aware of the suffering that animals endure testing such products as women's cosmetics, hair coloring, or kitchen cleaning products. Much of the suffering is unnecessary, since other methods of testing are available. Animal rights groups are doing their best to bring about change by making the public more aware.
Q1) Before reading this article, were you aware of the suffering that animals endure in testing the products that we buy? If so, what did you know and how did you find out about it?
Q2) If it is true that there are other methods of testing which do not require the use of laboratory
animals, then why do reseachers continue to use the animals?
Q3) Do you think that animals should have rights, the same as human beings, or do animals have no rights? Tell why you think so.
Q4) There are countries in the world where even dogs and cats are eaten. What is your opinion of eating other animals besides the ones normally eaten-pigs, cows, chickens, etc.?
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These animals must endure many kinds of painful procedures. They are burned, starved, irradiated, shocked, mutilated, kept in isolation, poisoned, drugged, electrocuted, just to name a few things which can happen to them.
Researchers do these things to animals because they say it will make our lives better. But studies conducted by animal rights groups have shown that the scientific benefits of animal experimentation are very limited.
It is true that people are living longer today than ever before. But most of the increase of our life expectancy is due to better sanitation and improvements in our lifestyle, NOT through research using laboratory animals.
In fact, sometimes animal experiments can lead to some tragic results. Many drugs that have been shown to be safe in laboratory animals have later seriously injured or killed people. These events are not widely publicized by medical researchers; if anything, they are usually kept secret.
Recently, one particular drug, Fialuridine, killed a number of people in a clinical trial after it had been tried on different kinds of animals and was reported by reseachers to be "safe."
Household products which are dangerous to humans are first tested on animals before they go on the market. These safety tests can be horrifying procedures. Liquids which can cause blindness in humans are placed in the eyes of restrained rabbits. The rabbits are unable to rub their eyes or give themselves any kind of relief. Poisons are applied to the bare skin of shaved animals. Animals are force-fed huge quantities of the test products until half or all of them die.
Most people are not aware of the suffering that animals endure testing such products as women's cosmetics, hair coloring, or kitchen cleaning products. Much of the suffering is unnecessary, since other methods of testing are available. Animal rights groups are doing their best to bring about change by making the public more aware.
Q1) Before reading this article, were you aware of the suffering that animals endure in testing the products that we buy? If so, what did you know and how did you find out about it?
Q2) If it is true that there are other methods of testing which do not require the use of laboratory
animals, then why do reseachers continue to use the animals?
Q3) Do you think that animals should have rights, the same as human beings, or do animals have no rights? Tell why you think so.
Q4) There are countries in the world where even dogs and cats are eaten. What is your opinion of eating other animals besides the ones normally eaten-pigs, cows, chickens, etc.?
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