For animal rights activists; Animal testing argument?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights\n\nhttp://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?splash&oid=3
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Yes. You may or may not have heard about a drugs trial in the UK recently in which 6 people where given a new drug, and had very severe reactions to it, and two of them nearly died. Many people have put this forward as a reason to abandon animal testing since the drug was tested on animals first and showed no sign of the reaction. However i must say that the drug trial worked perfectly, despite the unfortunate outcome. There are many drugs that don't make it to phase one human trials because of bad reactions in animals. Mice have a similar immune system to ours, and so make them a good model animal to test.\n\nIn studies, animals are very useful. Many genes and proteins are very highly conserved amoungst humans and animals. To effectively study what these genes do, in a bid to find new ways to treat illnesses, it is necessary to mutate the gene in the animals. So unless any humans wish to volunteer, it is nescesary to use aniumals. Oh and I do wish animal rights protestors who attack medical research institutes would volunteer.
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The biggest animal rights group in the world right now is probably People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. You might want to check out their site and the sites of their critics. Try http://www.petakillsanimals.com for some startling facts about PETA. Also, any good book on animal rights/welfare in your school's library will address the criticisms of the animal rights movement.\n\nA handy tip: remember that animal right and animal welfare are not the same thing. When you think animal rights, think PETA. When you think animal welfare, think SPCA.\n\nGood luck with your term paper!
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They are against evreything, including having pets. They believe all animals should run free & wild. I may be a vegetarian, but PETA is crazy.
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I think they offer the perfect solution to one of society's more pressing moral problems.\n\nHuntingdon Life Sciences and its associated companies are constantly under attack for their use of animals in scientific research. Obviously, the experiments conducted on the animals, while essential to medical and scientific research, are often painful and result in the death of the animal. Another problem is that, while guinea pigs, chimpanzees or dogs share certain physical and biochemical similarities with humans, they aren't exactly the same.\n\nStreet beggars fill the gap admirably. Physically and biochemically they are identical to human beings, without actually being human. There are plenty of them and there is absolutely no reason to care about what happens to them. If we finish experimenting with one and dispose of it afterwards, we can just go and get another one. There are plenty to go around.\n\nThough it's of no concern, this also gives their life some purpose, in that they will save a chimpanzee or a rat from having to suffer. This is certainly of far, far greater value to society than their current role.
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For years a debate has ensued over the practice of animal research and experimentation. The scientific community and animal rights activists have disagreed as to whether the benefits of animal research and experimentation are worth the pain and suffering that these experiments often cause to the animal subjects. Scientific advances have greatly reduced the number and severity of animal experiments that take place\n\nThere are  two main categories of animal experimentation and research, medical and cosmetic. \n\nMedical testing involves testing new drugs for their levels of toxicity and trying out new medical procedures. Animals are used to represent humans and human reactions in these tests in order to analyze the potential impacts of the drugs or procedures on humans\n\nCosmetic testing is use of  animals to test the risks involved with the use of certain cosmetics and household products. This type of experimentation predicts the irritation levels of these products and any dangers they may pose to humans\n\nWITHOUT ANIMAL RESEARCH:\n*60 MILLION PEOPLE MAY RISK DEATH FROM HEART ATTACK, STROKE, OR KIDNEY FAILURE FROM LACK OF MEDICATION TO CONTROL THEIR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.\n*7,5000 NEWBORNS WHO CONTRACT JAUNDICE EACH YEAR WOULD DEVELOP CEREBRAL PALSY, NOW PREVENTABLE THROUGH PHOTO THERAPY. \n*POLIO WOULD KILL OR CRIPPLE THOUSANDS OF UNVACCINATED CHILDREN AND ADULTS THIS YEAR.\n*MILLIONS OF DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER PEYS AND FARM ANIMALS WOULD DIE FROM ANTHRAX, DISTEMPER, CANINE PARVOVIRUS, FELINE LEUKEMIA, RABIES AND MORE THAN 200 OTHER DISEASES NOW PREVENTABLE THANKS TO ANIMAL RESEACH.
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Nope, since American Cancer Society continues to fund animal research - and seems to not even consider the incredibly abundant and accurate amount of non-animal projects out there that are making headway.  I'm not an activist nutjob - so don't get on my case, but I am smart and humane enough to see that there are real alternatives.  But I digress - just go to http://www.pcrm.org for more info in that vein from thousands of actual doctors and scientists.  \n\nIf you're like me and you do want to support the fight against cancer - but in a humane way - there are many, many groups that support non-animal cancer research, for example, The Garland Appeal http://www.garlandappealusa.com created by Paul McCartney in memory of his late wife, Linda.\n\nAnyway, I will not be supporting the Relay for Life, although I will support other cancer-fighting activities and have the utmost respect and best wishes to all those whose lives have been touched by cancer.
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Vegetarians are largely the same people that protest hunting, throw blood on fake fur, and kill abortion doctors.\n\nDo you know how many people are killed every year in car/deer accidents? or how about the last time the bleeding hearts freed all the mink at the local mink ranch, and the mink went to the local trailer court to feed on all the cats? Or this "it's too mean to kill fetuses, so I'm gonna kill people." mentality, what's up with that?\n\nSo, if we put two and two together, bleeding heart liberals like deer, hate cars, like mink, hate cats, like unborn people, and kill abortion clinic docs.\n\nSo, what's next? \n\nAmerica becomes a third-world country, and looks a lot like India did back in the 70's, where a starving child can be seen right next to a healthy cow, in downtown Milwaukee.\n\nThe national speed limit is reduced to 15 miles per hour on account of all the deer, cows, pigs and sheep, roaming freely around the country, eating our crops before we can, and crapping on our children. Ted Nugent replaces Osama Bin Laden as the world's most wanted criminal, and I get arrested repeatedly for Vehicular Deerslaughter.\n\nEver see "Nightmare on Elm Street? Remember how Freddie Krueger was conceived? 'nuff said.\n\nOh! did I mention the Bovine Holocaust Museum?\n\nHopefully, the punishment for Vehicular Deerslaughter is lethal injection. Did you know they sterilize the area with a cottonball soaked in alcohol before they insert the needle that'll kill you? Ya think they're worried about giving the condemned an infection?
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agree 100%\nno animal is at fault\nexcept the human animal\nthe owner of the animal should be jailed & fined for what his/her animal did\nthe animal is only defending itself
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Donna, this is a guess. Was she (or you, from the name) jailed because she protested for animal rights? Pl ease do tell.\n\ncc
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I have seen some really bad arguments in favor of the gay movement.\n\nThe most common one seems to be that since a small proportion of other animal species are homosexual, it is natural behavior.\n\nLet me just clarify something for a second here: Since when is "natural" behavior for the lower animals the same as natural human behaviors?\n\nHumans are more than a cut above all other species, and so is all of our behavior, including sex, as animalistic as it might seem at times.\n\nAlso, lower animals don't engage in homosexuality for their own personal pleasure like homosexual humans, but for reasons like resolving group or clan conflicts and encouraging reluctant members of the opposite sex to mate with them.\n\nThe end of a civilized and moral humanity will be near if and when we as a species start procreating through test tubes in order to allow homosexuals to have all the pleasure they want.
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I don't have an answer for you.  Obviously the people drafting the laws didn't have all of the facts.  Why not call up the trucking lobby and complain?\n\nAdditional: to another answerer I don't think this gentlemen was disputing global warming.  He was merely stating a fact based on his experience.  As far as the animal comment - doesn't surprise me.  A lot of people treat their dogs better than their wives and kids.  \n\nI wish I had answers.  Interesting points though.  I still say write your Congressman or lobby (union, etc).
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Hasn't anyone told them that plants have feelings too?And the savagry of animals attacking those plants..,dogs defacating on grass and peeing on trees..,I hear my grass screaming everytime fufu does a poo poo in my yard.\n\nHas anyone told Peta that the leather sandals they wear or the leather belt or the leather wallet are made from cowhides?They killed a cow just to wear a belt?Lmao
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A lot of animals have to suffer for really stupid things like testing make-up or shampoo. In those cases animal testing is just completely unnecessary, there are a lot of good make-up products on the market which have never used animals to test on. \n\nThe tests many animals go through are heartbreaking and they suffer a real lot because of those tests. \n\nCheck out sites about animaltesting and see if you can stand the cruelty that is been done to them. \n\nhttp://www.stopanimaltests.com/index.aspx\nhttp://www.animaland.org/asp/realissues/testing.asp
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That is basically impossible to know. but try looking for something PETA might post.
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The closest thing/being to humans is animals, and testing products on animals allows humans to observe and control results without humans being injured.  I suppose we could start testing new technology on prisoners, but I hear they have rights, also.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) \nNonprofit organization operating under the principle that "animals are not ours to eat, wear, perform experiments on, or use for entertainment."