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  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    The purpose of a revolution, as history has shown, is to fight some sort of political or social injustice suffered by a group of the general public. Typically a minority of the population, in search of a better lifestyle fights back against the oppression they have been forced to endure. History is full of countless examples of this. Two such notable revolutions are the French and Russian movements, though they occurred at completely different time

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    Animal Rights Humans and animals have coexisted relatively peacefully for thousands of years. As time has progressed, the guidelines by which humans and animals live by allows each species to coexist with each other. Yet, there are still disputes as to how certain groups of animals are to be treated and handled by humans. These disputes bring about discussion and debate of both animal and human rights. To make things even more complicated, animals must

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    Essay Length: 795 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Max
  • Thoughts on Animal Rights by Tom Regan

    Thoughts on Animal Rights by Tom Regan

    I regard myself as an advocate of animal rights -- as a part of the animal rights movement. That movement, as I conceive it, is committed to a number of goals, including: the total abolition of the use of animals in science; the total dissolution of commercial animal agriculture; the total elimination of commercial and sport hunting and trapping. There are, I know, people who profess to believe in animal rights but do not avow

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    Essay Length: 5,912 Words / 24 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Animal Rights Speech

    Animal Rights Speech

    Our case is that if we don't test on animals then progress in scientific fields would be halted. As first speaker for the negative I will speak about the benefits of animal testing in general and then I'll talk in detail about animal testing in medicine. My second speaker will talk about the opinions on testing and the food chain and my third speaker will summarise our points and rebut. Safety tests are conducted on

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    Essay Length: 393 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Animal Rights - Cause for Vegetariansim

    Animal Rights - Cause for Vegetariansim

    Animal Rights - Cause for Vegetarianism The choice of eating meat or not has been a debated issue for a continued number of years. There have long since been two sides: the proponents and opponents of meat consumption. More and more debates of its value and effect on the world have risen. Many claim it is wrong, while others think of it as a needed pleasure. Today, a greater percentage of the population eats meat.

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    Essay Length: 755 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    Animal Rights “What is man without the beast? If the beast were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man” (Chief Seattle). While much has been done to protect animals, it is nowhere near what needs to be done to secure their inhabitance on earth and give them their rights. Animals have nerves so they can feel pain and they do suffer so

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    Essay Length: 1,947 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Top
  • Animal Welfare Vs. Animal Rights

    Animal Welfare Vs. Animal Rights

    In the Agricultural World one of the most controversial issues right now is that between Animal Welfare and Animal Rights. Animal Rights activists are arguing that people are no more superior than animals are and Animal Welfare activists are resorting to the government to see that animals are being taken care of properly. Me personally, I’m for Animal Welfare because without the use of animals our global economy would soon fall. Our animal industry

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    Essay Length: 391 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    It is possible to commit an immoral act against a non-human animals. In order to commit an immoral act against a non-human animal, one must define the word morality. According to the definition it means conformity to the rules of right conduct,. On the other hand immorality means wickedness or evil (random house dictionary). So in reflection a wicked or an evil act against an animal is an immoral act also. I believe that it

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    Essay Length: 1,128 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Utilitarianism and Animal Rights

    Utilitarianism and Animal Rights

    Animal Rights Throughout history morality has been a topic of intense debate. Innumerable thinkers have devoted immense amounts of time and energy to the formulation of various ethical theories intended to assist humans in their daily lives. These theories set out guidelines which help to determine the rightness or wrongness of any given action and can therefore illuminate which choice would be morally beneficial. And while many of these theories differ substantially, most have at

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    Essay Length: 514 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: July
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    Why does society not tolerate a harmful action of a man against another man, but very often they overlook a harmful action of a man against an animal? I think this question must be understood if we are ever to change the rights animals have. I feel strongly that animals should have rights. When I was a child I didn't believe animals had any actual rights, rather humans had rights that involved animals. My view

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    Essay Length: 1,284 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    [Name] [Professor’s Name] [Subject] [Date] ANIMAL RIGHTS Is it morally wrong to eat meat? The movement for animal rights, which is also known as animal liberation, is the concept that the basic interests of animals should be regarded with an equal eye as with humans. It promotes the fact that animal should not be treated as public property, traded or be made a part of any business transaction, but they should be treated as

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Jon
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    Animal Rights “What is man without the beast? If the beast were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man” (Chief Seattle). While much has been done to protect animals, it is nowhere near what needs to be done to secure their inhabitance on earth and give them their rights. Animals have nerves so they can feel pain and they do suffer so

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    Essay Length: 1,815 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Animal Rights/testing

    Animal Rights/testing

    There has been much controversy about using animals in experiments for decades. People converse over different alternatives for animal testing and the inhumane way scientists treat these animals in experiments. This topic causes so much controversy because there are ethical issues to consider such as the treatment of the animals and the reasoning behind testing on these animals if its for a greater cause or not. As of now , I am for animal testing

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    Essay Length: 547 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    “We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do nut suffer less because they have no words.” Sewelle, Anna. Black Beauty.(2000) Through the course of evolution both the animal and the human species have evolved; humans ironically taking form from prehistoric animals as well. As our body and mind have evolved we have separated from each other on this so called hierchy chain. The

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Steve
  • Animal Rights for Marine Mammals

    Animal Rights for Marine Mammals

    Animal Rights for Marine Mammals Written By: Bottlenose dolphins became part of a United States Navy program in 1959 for the purpose of conducting scientific research into their sonar and hydrodynamics in hopes of getting design ideas for submarines, ship hulls and weapons. It was discovered dolphins hear and navigate in the water by using their natural sonar, which happened to be more precise than most fabricated sonar systems. In the mid-sixties, Navy dolphins were

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Animal Rights

    Animal Rights

    Animal Rights For the past few years, there has been an on-going, heated debate on whether experiments on animals for the benefit of medical and scientific research are ethical. I believe it is wrong, and that some form of cost-benefit test should be performed to determine if the action is right. The costs include: animal pain, distress, and death; where the benefits include the collection of knowledge and the development of new medical therapies for

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    Essay Length: 877 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Jessica
  • People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta) - Animal Rights, Human Abuse

    People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta) - Animal Rights, Human Abuse

    With over 850,000 active members, the animal rights organization People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has blossomed into an exceptionally powerful speech community. Their main goal is to enlighten others about the prominent existence of animal cruelty in the world, hoping to gain enough power to abolish it, or at least prevent it from happening as often as it does. PETA uses language as a tool of power, verbalizing its message through controversial ad

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    Essay Length: 1,685 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Vika
  • Do Animals Have Rights - a Philosophical View

    Do Animals Have Rights - a Philosophical View

    Do Animals Have Rights? Should animals be harmed to benefit mankind? This pressing question has been around for at least the past two centuries. During the early nineteenth century, animal experiments emerged as an important method of science and, in fact, marked the birth of experimental physiology and neuroscience as we currently know it. There were, however, guidelines that existed even back then which restricted the conditions of experimentation. These early rules protected the animals,

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Andrew
  • A Philosophical View - Do Animals Have Rights?

    A Philosophical View - Do Animals Have Rights?

    Do Animals Have Rights? Should animals be harmed to benefit mankind? This pressing question has been around for at least the past two centuries. During the early nineteenth century, animal experiments emerged as an important method of science and, in fact, marked the birth of experimental physiology and neuroscience as we currently know it. There were, however, guidelines that existed even back then which restricted the conditions of experimentation. These early rules protected the animals,

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Is Animal Cloning Right?

    Is Animal Cloning Right?

    It is a universal feeling of human cloning as taboo; however animal cloning is now an issue. The idea of animal cloning being a good thing is the volume of the number of steaks would increase and be more nutritional. Also, cloning somehow would bring about new vaccines. The intentions of cloning animals are to improve livestock, use parts of pigs for human transplants, and to make drugs. The FDA is also getting involved or

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    Essay Length: 769 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • Animal Testing - Right or Wrong?

    Animal Testing - Right or Wrong?

    Animal Testing…Right or Wrong? In the 1880’s, Louis Pasteur conducted one of the most unpleasant series of animal experiments in the history of the fight against infectious disease. Unable to see the organism that causes rabies with the microscopes available, he convinced a skeptical medical community of the microorganism’s existence and also the possibility of vaccinating against it. He did this by doing work on rabbits and dogs. In 1885, after much heart searching, he

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jack
  • Animal Testing: Pros and Cons

    Animal Testing: Pros and Cons

    Animal Testing Introduction The application of animals to test a large number of products from household compounds and cosmetics to Pharmaceutical products has been considered to be a normal strategy for many years. Laboratory animals are generally used in three primary fields: biomedical research, product security evaluation and education. (Animal Experiments) It has been estimated that approximately, 20 million animals are being used for testing and are killed annually; about 15 million of them are

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    Essay Length: 3,549 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Pro - Animal Testing and Experimentation Essay

    Pro - Animal Testing and Experimentation Essay

    Pro - Animal Testing and Experimentation Essay Animal testing and experimenting has been practiced ever since the fifteenth century, although it did not become widespread until the 1800's. Ever since that people realized animals had feelings and could feel pain, people have started debating over the issue of animal testing, and it soon became a highly controversial topic. Many people argues that it is unmoral to test products of any kind on animals, while scientists

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    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • The Right to a Marriage (argument Essay)

    The Right to a Marriage (argument Essay)

    The Right To A Marriage Marriage is a very special moment in a persons life. It's the big step you take in your relationship becoming as one with the other person. Starting a new life together being able enjoy one another for the rest of your lives. What if your relationship with the other person was the same sex as you. There could be some complications with that. Not that many people agree on same

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    Essay Length: 790 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2008 By: Max
  • Animal Farm - Movie

    Animal Farm - Movie

    Animal Farm is a movie that uses animals to make fun of humans. The movie starts out with a the highest animal, Old Major, the pig, telling all the animals they must unite and leave the humans, and that the humans should not boss them around anymore. However, before that can happen, Old Major is killed. The animals do succeed, though, in scaring off the humans. Because O ld Major has died, it is time

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    Essay Length: 379 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2009 By: Bred

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