What Do Aniamls Mean To Us

Man will stradle whatever line he has to in order to get what he desires. With the difference in the DNA of a chimpanzee and man being so small, you must wonder how small does the difference have to be, where man does not feel it has the authority to experiment on another animal. In society’s eyes this 2 percent gives man the right to experiment on the chimpanzee. He then says that “Once assured by the government that there was no need for alarm, they would be back in the spotless supermarkets, making their selections among the sliced, cubed, and shrink-wrapped remains” (2). Rats and mice are already excluded from the very definition of ‘animal’ by the Department of Agriculture” (3). Shelley believes that man should not eat animals. Shelley emphasizes that those who want to take up the vegetable diet must stop at once and not gradually.

It appears that in our society animals are viewed as machines (2). This straddling of the line can most easily be seen in the case of the chimpanzee. Her reason for this is not because she believes in animals rights, but because she thinks that animals carry disease and it is not the natural diet of man to eat meat. 01 percent or is that still to great a difference for the chimpanzee or another aniamal to live? A key fact about all this testing is that animal tests only predict side effects in humans 48 percent of the time (3). This ethical statement gives man another reason to treat animals the way that he chooses. Shelley says “There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried” (Shelley 12). Williams speaks of how the only thing that would cause people to stop eating meat is the threat of disease be transported through meat.