... of sheer utilization, animals today are more valuable than ever before. We not only eat, ride, shoot, wear, trap, hunt, and farm animals, but the medical field experiments on over 17 million animals per year. Although 85 percent of that total is comprised of rats and ... field. Though lauded worldwide in prevention and cure of innumerable diseases, such as alcoholism, diabetes, heart disease and manic depression, the act of animal experimentation has met no small amount of opposition. Polarity reached such epic proportions that Stanford University halted plans on an $18 millon lab, cos...

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... conditions so we can eventually kill them and eat them has been under debate. Some people agree with it, and others don't. People who are pro animal rights, believe that the mammals are undergoing harsh treatment and shouldn't have to go through it. Some conditions in which they live in are living in ... judged by the way its animals are treated" --Gandhi, the Moral Basis of Vegetarianism. According to this quote, this is what many people relate to when they think of animal rights. There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a b...

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... million. Animals can be used in medical experiments because they suffer diseases similar to humans. Virtually, every existing medical treatment today has involved animal testing, at least to some degree. Twenty million animals today are being used in all sorts of medical experiments every year. Most ... of them are rats and mice, although many other different species are also used in research, such as cats, dogs, farm animals, nonhuman primates and guinea pigs. Those animals can be captured in wild, or more likely, are breed especially for the purpose of ... two different mammal species...

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... the only way for it to stop is by education and awareness. I. Exposing Animal Cruelty within the Slaughterhouses A. Cruelty from the Start: proving that cruelty is started at birth within the confines of the farm. B. The Government and Animal Cruelty: how the government turns the other cheek when exposed to animal cruelty within slaughterhouses. C. The "too dead" Myth, talking about the common ... myth believed by companies that an animal can be "too dead." II. Aspects of Animal Cruelty A. Slaughterhouses for the Meat Industry: what tortured cattle, ... the Humane Slaughter Act. C. Wor...

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