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Animal Rights

Animal rights is a very fragile topic. Opposing sides have strong reasons
to stand for either of their believes, leading to many ethical questions.
One of the major questions is who is right and who is wrong? There is no
one right answer, but instead million of them based upon our own individual
opinion, and the opinions are formed on how we feel about the facts. Animal
research, test, and use has taken humanity a long way, with its advances in
medicine and as a major source of food, but it is not morally correct to
abuse, test, use, and ultimately kill the animals unnecessarily, especially
for our comforts, luxuries, and greed.

Many benefits have been obtained through animals, mostly in the field of
Medicine. The medical world has rapidly moved forward finding cures for many diseases through animal testing, giving new alternatives and shining a new light for illnesses that did not have a cure before. Working with animals
like monkeys and dogs have resulted in successful open heart surgeries on
people, as well as organ transplants, and the cardiac pace maker.
The disease polio, which killed and disabled many children, is almost
completely vanished from the United States by the used of preventive vaccines that were perfected on monkeys. Not only polio, but also mumps, measles,rubella and smallpox have been eliminated through antibiotics tested on monkeys. Major diseases have been alleviated and have had major advances totheir cure, diseases such as leukemia in children among other types of cancerand tumors. Animals not only contribute greatly in medicine, but through out the history of human kind they have been consumed as food, being a majorsource for the basic nutrition.

Unfortunately, some research has gone too far, putting many animals through unnecessary pain. According to Jean Bethke Elshtain, a Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, the abuse that animals go through is intolerable. Monkeys are dipped in boiling water and pigs are burnt, without any type of painkillers to see how they react to third degree burns. Even more horrifying is the fact that dogs and other animals are left without care bearing open incisions, infected wounds, broken bones among other things in a miserable atmosphere, surrounded by rotting food and their own feces. What breaks my heart to read is how when some animals are being tested, the researchers sometimes remove the defenseless animals vocal chords by an operation called centriculocordectomy, so this way they will not hear the animals' cries, groans and yelps while they are being
experimented on.

Research it's not only limited to the medical field, but also in many other
areas. "Monkeys are the most likely subjects of experiments designed to
measure the effects of neutron-bomb radiation and the toxicity of chemical
warfare agent.....Radiation experiments on primates continue. Monkeys' eyes
are irradiated, and the animals are subjected to shocks of up to 1,200
volts." Monkeys are exposed to these radiations to observe
how cancer progresses. But what observers actually see is "primates that are
so distressed that they claw themselves and even bite hunks from their own
arms and legs in a futile attempt to stop the pain." The pain these
animals endure and go through is unbearable and unnecessary, other means
could be use to do the research, considering many times these type of
research is unnecessary. Even worse is the fact that animals are been used
in the production of things such as make-up and household products. Is it
really necessary for a whale to die so we can wear lipstick for couple of
hours, or so we can wax our floors? The price of these commodities is
ridiculous, an animal should never even be at risk of been hurt for such
superficial things. Many companies such as Gillette test their products on
animals before putting them on the public market. This is simply cruel,
animals are hurting and dying for things that are superficial. The worst is
the FUR COATS!!! It is a a a greedy murder.

If anything we are the ones that owe the animals a great debt. Without themwe would be years behind in medicine and many things that are done now wouldnot be able to be accomplished. But how far are we willing to go for thesake of medicine, technology, comforts, luxuries and looks? Is all theseworth the death and abuse of millions of animals? The answer is no. Grantedthat they have helped us greatly in the ordeal of human kind, by letting ustest on them and eat them, we are ultimately responsible for most of the diseases and the habits and they should not pay for it. Even in the name of Medical Science, the life of an animal that is taken unnecessarily was a
mistake that will never be repaired.