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    Using animals in research and to test the safety of products has been a topic of heated debate for decades. According to data collected by F. Barbara Orlans for her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, sixty percent of all animals used in testing are used in biomedical research and product-safety testing (62). People have different feelings for animals; many look upon animals as companions while others view animals as a means for advancing medical techniques

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    Animal Bill of Rights Do you know 2 million animals are killed by wildlife services ? Animal rights have been a prevalent issue since 1970s. An organization called Animal Legal Defense Fund has supported a petition that strengthens the protection of animal rights. The petition states that all animals are to be free from exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse. The Animal Defense Fund is working on trying to show congress the importance of the Animal Bill of Rights. Every day, animals are

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    Animal rights and animal abused William Dudley stated “Humans feel pain and have rights; Animals feel pain; Therefore, animals have rights.” Animals are unique creatures that have a right to live, especially animals are part of nature. Although some animals are nearly extinct due to habitat destruction, for example, humans eliminate forests to have more land or to desperately have cities. Animal rights are increasing the support not only to help animals, to surely help the earth. Studies have developed

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    centuries, animals have played a huge part in people’s lives. Some people worship animals, and for other people animals may be nothing but a source of food. The Animal Legal Defense Fund Organization has sponsored a petition that calls for increased protection for the rights of animals. The petition calls for the right of all animals to be free of exploitation, cruelty, neglect, and abuse, and enumerates further rights for laboratory animals, farm animals, companion animals, and wildlife. Animals should

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    Peta Animal Rights

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    we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do” once said Ingrid Newkirk, beloved animal rights activist and cofounder of the largest animal rights organizations, PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. There is a much bigger picture than which lies centered on the human

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    Animal Rights Animals Rights is a big discussion that has been around for while. Many argue since animals aren’t human, it doesn’t matter how they are treated or taken care of. There are others that do care how our animals are treated and taken care of. Animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. This topic has been around for a while but has become more absolute (Environmental Encyclopedia, Opposing

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    Animals are found throughout lives of humans. As companions, entertainment, test subjects and food, animals serve vital roles throughout our lives.The Animal Bill of Rights, through the Animal Legal Defense Fund, attempts to defend the basic legal rights of all animals. However, to weigh the need for such an act, one must compare the suffering of animals to the benefits such suffering gives to humankind. It’s much more important to highlight the crucial medical advances that lab animals have provided

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    Animals are not suppose to be used as food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation or any other purpose and that animals deserve consideration and what is in their best interests. Animal right is a movement that tends to protect animals from being used and abuse by humans. This includes the use of animals for anything that causes them pain and suffering, such as medical experiments, imprisonment in circuses and zoos, and fur production. Animal rights support the idea that all animals are to be

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    animal rights Essay

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         Humans have rights that are either natural rights or earned rights. Natural rights are rights that every person is born with and keeps throughout his life. Some of these rights include freedom of speech, the right to an attorney, and other common sense rights. Some people believe that animals do not have souls; therefore, they do not have any rights (Regan 104). On the other hand, there are earned rights like the rights given to hunters. Hunters have the right to hunt as long as they

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    Animal Rights Amendment

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    should not be an amendment to the constitution granting animals rights. The reason I feel there should not be any amendment is because they provide us with food, give us resources that we use daily and we also get long lasting clothes from using their fur or flesh. But I do believe there should be laws on how to properly kill animals we consume or use for their fur, flesh or meat. According to the article A Change of Heart about Animals says “What these researchers are finding is that many of

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