Puppy mills should be banned.

Puppy mills should be banned, is the resolution. "Admittedly, puppy mills AS THEY ARE NOW are wasteful. If they expanded into the sale of dog meat (No, really, the stuff's delicious.), then the unsold products (ie dogs) would not go to waste." Con True. "Puppy mills are merely a production site for dogs. The mills and contents thereof (ie site and dogs) are property of the owner. Puppy mills are legal as they are now, but deregulating them would decrease the amount of suffering by allowing the dog meat to be sold as a food product, instead of an interim period until they are put down as we have now." Con Pro thinks what Con is stating is that by banning puppy mills a black market would be created. Very similar to the idea of legalizing drugs and prohibition. Legislation that makes drugs illegal makes the drugs more profitable for criminals. Not only that but dog meat would somehow be sold on the black market. There are small and responsible breeders in existence already. Pro doubts that a black market would arise over dog meat. "Animals are property, and we need to make use of everything we've got to ensure a good future for us. Once we've done that, then, maybe we'll throw "not us" a few concessions if we feel like it and we don't stand to lose anything." Con Pro is unsure what Con is stating. Pro thinks Con is making a reference to dog meat. Claim: Producing dog meat create additional animal cruelty. Warrant: "Slaughtering No country in the world has devised a humane method of slaughtering dogs for commercial dog meat production." [1]. Impact: People would become unhappy at the inhumane treatment of dogs. Less dogs produced by banning puppy mills is preferable. Claim: Meat is causes cancer. Warrant: "A New Study Linking Meat and Cancer Is Somehow Even More Alarming Than the Last One" [2] Warrant: "Meat-cooking mutagens, including heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), are formed as a result of meat cooking, preparation, and level of doneness and may increase the risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC)." [3]. Warrant: "Meat Is Linked to Higher Cancer Risk, W.H.O. Report Finds"[4]. Warrant: "Red meat After thoroughly reviewing the accumulated scientific literature, a Working Group of 22experts from 10 countries convened by the IARC Monographs Programme classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans(Group 2A), based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat causes cancer in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect. This association was observed mainly for colorectal cancer, but associations were also seen for pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer. Processed meat Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) , based on sufficient evidence in humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer." [5]. Impact: Meat is unhealthy and since dog meat is a subset of the set meat, dog meat is also unhealthy and thus puppy mills should be banned. "Claim 1 is inconsistent. It's either 3-4 million or 2.7 million, and no mention is made of how many cats and dogs were put down on the request of their owners because they were really old and had an incurable disease." Con All the numbers are at least 1 million. Pro doubts that old and sick dogs make up much of the numbers. "Claim 3 assumes that animal cruelty is bad." Con Con makes a good point Pro has no shown why animal cruelty is bad. Let's go from a survival point of view. Most people assume survival is desirable. If an alien flying a scout ship with advanced technology spies on the planet Earth they will most likely not share human values. The aliens may not even know the difference between dogs and humans. To these aliens they may simply see us humans as ruthless butchers. Since the aliens are already way more advanced than us we would be at their mercy. The chances of the aliens sparing ruthless butchers would be less than a more merciful scenario. Thus, its imperative that humans clean up their act and prevent animal cruelty to increase their chances of survival. As for aliens not existing, that is very unlikely considering the sheer size of the universe. Considering estimates are at 100-200 billion galaxies there is a high probability aliens exist. "While estimates among different experts vary, an acceptable range is between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies"[6]. "The chances of alien life existing on a newly-discovered Earth-like planet are 100 per cent, an astronomer has claimed. " [7]. The chances of aliens existing are 100%. Yes, there is a chance humans will blow their-selves up before then, but we should be prepared for the future. We can't count on aliens being able to distinguish between humans and dogs. Therefore, we should be nice to animals and ban puppy mills. Dog shouldn't be eaten and animal cruelty should be stopped. Ban puppy mills, vote Pro. 1. http://www.changeforanimals.org... 2. http://www.grubstreet.com... 3. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org... 4. http://www.nytimes.com... 5. http://www.iarc.fr... 6. http://www.space.com... 7. http://www.telegraph.co.uk...