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Animal Testing |
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487 |
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1.95 |
Animal Testing
"It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I know such a pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe- I have thought since- I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us." In the 1896 novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, H. G. Wells describes the anguish of a puma in the process of a vivisection. For hundreds of years, people have used animals to determine the effects of a product. Modern science frequently uses animals in experiments. To contemplate whether animals have rights is an immortal question that has even been controversial to historical figures like Wells, a student of the infamous biologist Thomas Henry Huxley.
Thousands of animals are used daily to test the effects of cosmetics and medicine. In questioning animal experimentation, one must consider if the animals have rights. Rights of animals refers to whether the animal has the conscious ability to choose its path of existence. The common saying that all men are created equal does not refer to animals. Yet, taxonomically, humans are classified as animals. Then should this aphorism be rephrased to, "All creatures are created equal"? No. Humans are ultimately given the choice to their own path of life.
If a monkey could comprehend the question of his being, what ...Read entire document
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