Animal Rights- Animal Testing

Animal Labs

This is a blog written by a college student that states her opinion of and many facts about anima labs in school. she says that although the animls are already dead when they reach the lab, many of them were mistreated while being transported or were inhumanly killed. in addition, some labs performed on live animals, although they say are not harmful to the animal, could have lasting effects on the creature or make it extremely agitated or uncomfortable at the time. she also makes the claim that no one would view the "painless" death of a person for educational purposes as right, so why is it any different for pigs or frogs or any other animal? furthermore, animal labs do not really teach students anything other then how to disect (everything else can be learned in other ways and only one animal would have to be harmed to get that information and not hundreds).

Animal Rights - Christianity and Animal Rights

religion and animal rights

A minister wrote this passage arguing that it is not anit-Christian to responsibly kill animals and that not being a strict animal rights activist does not mean you are not Christian. He defines an animal rights activist as someone who believes that animals have simalr rights to humans and that they should not be interfered with. He then explains the difference between animal rights activists and protectionists, who he believes are much more reasonable because they believe that if it is justified, than killing an animal is ok. This minister also uses direct Bible quotes to state that God gave the earth to people, not animals. God wanted man to protect different species from extinction, not the rights of each individual animal. Furthermore God gave man the right to eat animals and if killing and eating animals were wrong, then Christ himself would have been a sinner...

Animal Rights - is eating meat wrong?

NY times

 In China, the Jinha Hutou Dog Meat Festival (which consists of the slaughter and eating of thousands of dogs) was canceled because of an online campaign started by animal rights advocates. each year thousands of dogs would be brought to the city and slaughtered to be eaten. this year, what started as a small internet campaign to raise awarenss for animal rights, ended in the canlcelation of a thousand year old festival. Similar events involvg nimal rights have also taken place and been stopped- a truck taking 500 dogs to a slaughter house was stopped by 200 people and all the dogs were saved. this rising awareness maybe related to the rising amount of Chinese own pets.

Animal Right - is the sale of fur wrong?

ny times fur sales

 In the small town of West Hollywood, people are trying to symbolically show their suppor for animal rights. they are banning the sale of fur coats and other pieces of clothing made from fur. Although this decision may ave a major effect of the financila state of the town, that isn't really a mjor concern. Residents of West Hollywood can easly go buy furs at surrounding towns, the ban is merely proving a point. This ban isn't actually thw first this town has passed. other animal rights related actions, such as declawing cats, buying cheap handguns, and the sale of companion aimals in pet stores have all already ben banned. Again these actions were ot meant to actually caue major change just yet, but merely to cause awareness. they are trying to make a differencce on the national scale