animal rights

             Ever since the beginning of human life we have been exposed to our dependency of what is available around us. We have so conveniently made use of our environment of plants and animals. In our society today, humans have relied too much on animals that humans can find no other substitution. It is a true fact that where there are humans there is destruction. But we have learned and have been conditioned with the fact that other animals are not as mortally or intelligently as important as we are. We have received many advantages by using animals to improve our lives, but the advantages are balanced with the disadvantages and that is when we start to think about the point of all this cruelty. We have been blinded by the fact that there are other alternatives besides ending the lives of other animals. It is our responsibility to end our cruel ways because it is us who developed it.
             Since the existence of man and other animals man has been taking advantages and depended on animals for their meat, milk and eggs, which, almost everywhere, form a major part of human food. Moreover, animals have skills that we lack. Without the existence of other animals I don't think it would be possible for us humans to get to where we are today. It is ironic for humans to think that we our better then other animals when we need, learn and depend on them so much. Testing on animals have brought to us a great amount of ease to our lives so we could say that humans have the right to test on animals. We could argue that knowledge must be pursued at all costs and that we would not want to let thousands of human beings die or suffer if we could prevent it by experimenting on animals. Certain diseases, which were fatal in the past, such as polio, tuberculosis and small pox, have now been brought under control through animal experimentation. The Cruelty to Animals Acts laid down that vivisection was to be carried out only by licensed individuals...

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