Animal Rights

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 hea
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