Essays on Peta

One often hears about human rights especially today after the record setting Women’s March but animals deserve rights to for they also have feelings and interests. According to Animal Ethics, an interest is normally defined as “what is beneficial to someonepromotes what is good for anyone whose life can go well or ill” (2017). In other words, animals do have interests for they perform in ways that ensure their survival such as gathering food or hibernating in the winter. In this sense they are not so different from humans thus instead of treating them like objects, they should ...

These images were sponsored by Peta, the organization for the protection of the rights of animals. It is suggested that animals should not be used neither for food nor for clothes because of the ethical issues. The interpretation of these images is related to the fact that animals have their rights as living creatures who suffer. They cannot defend themselves and people need to provide them ethical treatment. The viewers are directly engaged in these photos because of the fact that human body or its parts are present in each of them. The woman promotes better treatment of wild ...

Animal testing is a dilemma, which seems impossible to be resolve. A lot of scientists are sure that it is the only way to achieve success in creating new types of medicine, in finding the way to cure diseases like cancer or even AIDS. In the end, doctors and biologists cannot experiment with human live and offer solution, which are not properly investigated. On the other hand, there is an entire army of people, who are certain that animal testing is at least unethical. Interestingly, both sides manage to find reasonable explanations and counterarguments that may puzzle any expert. ...

In global societies, discussions concerning the use of animals in medical tests for research are uncomfortable and controversial. Modern technology often broadcasts horrific photos of procedures being conducted on helpless creatures accompanied by claims of untrustworthy results and skewed statistics. In the long run, animals will continue to be used for testing in laboratories until the value of the practice is diminished. “The benefits of animal research have been enormous and it would have severe consequences for public health and medical research if it were abandoned “ (Festing and Wilkinson, n.p.). This paper will present information regarding whether animal testing ...

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Please Stop Your Aid in Enabling Others to Harm and be Cruel to Animals

I am writing on behalf of the animals that are sold at your store that are mistreated and kept in hazardous conditions by one of your major wildlife suppliers, Holmes Farms. Though this business is already under investigation thanks to PETA’s campaign against Holmes Farms and Petco has stated that they have cut ties with this supplier, your business has continued to do business with them. This mistreatment was discovered initially after an activist for PETA got a job at Holmes Farms and discovered ...

The film Blackfish by Gabriela Cowper Thwaite, released in 2013, focused on a captive Orcas by SeaWorld. When the Orcas got separated from her family at the age of 2 years, he was rehabilitated by SeaWorld. The confinement of the Whale which was later named Tilikum for over 20 years caused the Orcas immense frustration causing the whale to kill over 3 human trainers (Brower). I believe that these animals have been denied the will to exist naturally in their environment. They are confined and denied of provisions that are paramount to their well-being such as movement by being ...

The subject of animal testing remains a moral issue that draws different reactions globally. In essence, it entails the utilization of non-human animals in the experiment that seeks to manipulate the variables that influence their biological system under study. In the recent years, animal experiments have increasingly been adopted as research tools by various scientists and research agencies. They entail the use of live animals such as rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, sheep, and cattle among others. These are considered important in experimentations aimed at studying behavioral studies, genetics, biology, and developmental biology (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). ...

Advertising has long ceased to be merely a method of marketing of products. Sometimes people in an advertisement can see something so amazing that will stick into memory for long. It does not matter, whether such an ad will captivate a person with its absurd stupidity, illiteracy, or depth of the problem concerned. It is no accident that endless streams of videos and thousands of pictures are so popular on the internet, discussions over new advertisement are rather heated, and cinemas show best advertisements. Creation of high-quality advertising is a work of talented creative team; and this process has ...

In the Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) public policy statement, toxicology is defined as the study of the interaction of chemical substances with living tissue in the context of the following issues: how they affect a biological organism’s processes, how to reduce the chemical substance’s potential harm to the organism, and what are safe levels of exposure (Society of Toxicology, 1999). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the SOT’s position statement on animal testing. The topics addressed in the paper are how toxicity levels are determined, the application of SOT principles to course material, ...

Consuming beef is without a doubt a pleasant practice among many individuals. In fact, not many people pose to think about the kind of treatment the animals were compelled to endure before their slaughter. In the article, This Is What Humane Slaughter Looks Like. Is It Good Enough? McClelland seeks to provide a rationale over the ethical principles about beef consumption. Precisely, are animals subjected to a conducive slaughter environment before their death? Is their demise made humane as many people think? He mentions that the United States enforced the Humane Slaughter Act in 1958. However, over the decades, ...