Lack of Consideration
             Animals shouldn't have rights but they do need some lawful considerations. Since you have to be a human to decipher and defend rights, then animals don't have any. Although there should be laws set to help protect animals but not from themselves, from us. The one creature on this planet that hurt animals the most are people. Too many people think that it's all right to harm animals. Even Tom Regan says that animals are here for us and that it doesn't matter if they get hurt (430). One of the many ways people harm animals are by animal research.
             Animal research isn't just studying and trying out different cancer treatments or cures for diseases on animals. Some experiments were done out of curiosity. There have been studies published by the Mobilization for Animals (M.F.A.). "Animals are given intense, repeated electric shocks until they lose the ability even to scream in pain; ... animals are subjected to crushing forces that smash their bones and rupture their internal organs" (King 696). These are only some of the experiments that we do know about. There are many that have gone unreported.
             My grandfather used to tell us stories about some of the research the military does. The most difficult for him to talk about was animal research. One of his duties was to file the papers for the scientists. Many times he read them first before putting them away. There were always many papers to be filed. Hundreds of experiments done everyday. Each experiment in it's own packet. Grandfather said that there were many papers filed on the studies they had done of animal mutation. They were taking parts of some animals and fitting them on other animals. There were never any written theories behind the mutations. The papers were just about the experimentations. They recorded things about how the animals recovered from pain, recovery...