Animal Cruelty
Will scientists need animal products for future technology?
Background
- research
- food
- clothing
- human entertainment .etc
- Today, many people feel that animals deserve more protection
- Animal research usually is accepted when it is believed scientifically necessary and the animals don't suffer
Benefits
- Laws protecting both domestic and wild animals
- Education in animal law and animal rights
- Support for the animal protection movement
- Communication of shelters
- Reporting animal abuse
Dangers
- Often occurs in factory farms and bio-medical research laboratories
- slaves, humans, and animals have no rights to protect directly until their legal person hood is recognized
- Animals in factory farms are kept in small areas
- In some films, animals are harmed for the camera
- There are still debates over scientific animal research
Examples
Benefit Examples:
- Martin's act of 1821.
- The Federal Animal Warfare Act of 1966
- Animal activists are working to outlaw use of unnecessary animal products
Danger Examples:
- A technique in witch the animals are tortured until submissive to their owners
- A technique causes pain to a horses legs in order to force the horse to preform its task
- Elephants are being hunted and killed for their ivory tusks.
Will scientists need animal products for future technology?
Bibliography
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