animal rights

Sorry it took so long i can only be on computer one hr a day! ==pro== ===Animal testing=== Every year, millions of animals suffer and die in painful tests to determine the safety of cosmetics and other products. Substances such as eye shadow and soap are tested on rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, dogs, and other animals, despite the fact that the test results don't help prevent or treat human illness or injury. People often fail to give animals the respect and rights they deserve, they are treated as lifeless, unfeeling scientific creatures, that we discard at our own convenience. Some of these animals come from animal shelters and others even worse, some have been stolen directly from their own front yard. Imagine your pet one day being crammed into a cage with ten other animals waiting to die for numerous unreliable tests. People look at these animals being tested on as their own. They will realize how horrible it must be if it was there own pet. We are constantly hearing on the news and other programs about people going to jail or of people having there animals taken from them and being fined because they haven't been feeding them or looking after them. We know these things are illegal. So why do scientists get away with what they are doing and these things are not accidental and they are definitely cruel and even barbaric so why do they get away with this? The list of alternatives can go on forever, so why must all these defenseless animals go on suffering. It is almost the end of the 20th century, we had some many scientific advancements are we not past animal testing. People need to stop turning the other shoulder when it comes to animal testing. It is a real issue and also a real problem at hand. The problem that we are faced with is not a difficult one to fix. The technology is available for us to use and we should take advantage of our advanced alternate methods. Their eyes are sometimes surgically removed; their brains and spinal cords damaged, and their bones broken. Animals are force fed substances through a stomach tube, forced to inhale a substance, or have the substance applied to their rectum or vagina. Cosmetics are not required to be tested on animals and since non-animal alternatives are around, it's hard to understand why some companies still continue to conduct these tests. Cosmetic companies kill millions of animals every year to try to make a profit. It is horrible inaccurate to test the reaction of one species to study another. Why are we testing a substance that might affect apart of animal that is different than ours? Also, why would you want to use a product that at one point in time, might have given animal a disease or a horrible defect? =Animals should have rights= Supporters of animal rights believe that animals have an inherent worth – a value completely separate from their usefulness to humans. We believe that every creature with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering. Animal rights is not just a philosophy – it is a social movement that challenges society's traditional view that all non-human animals exist solely for human use. As PETA's managing director, Ingrid E. Newkirk has said, "When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife". Only prejudice allows us to deny others the rights that we expect to have for ourselves. Whether it's based on race, gender, sexual orientation or species, prejudice is morally unacceptable. If you wouldn't eat a dog, why eat a pig? Dogs and pigs have the same capacity to feel pain, but it is prejudice based on species that allows us to think of one animal as a companion and the other as dinner.