Animal Rights

             In America today, one of the most debated issues is on animal rights. Many people storm the streets and form picket lines in order to support the strong ideas and feelings that this issue brings forward. The reasons that these people fight so hard for animal equality is because "billions of animals world wide are killed in medical experiments, used for product testing, trapped for their furs, and even used for the benefit of war research" (Williams 7).
             This topic has brought about many heated debates all over the world. Sometimes it can be hard to choose a side with this topic. For example, some argue that without animals the medical field might not be what it is today. While others argue that the suffering of animals should not be known as the way we keep healthy in such an advanced and developed nation. Even if you believe in the experiments, imagine being locked up in a cage and being tortured to death for someone who really doesn't even care.
             Although scientists try to fight animal rights activists by upholding the fact that people gain cures, new vaccines, and medical breakthroughs from animal experimentation, the debate over the harshness of these experiments still remains. "Monkeys are immersed in water and vibrated to cause brain damage. They are separated from their mothers, kept in isolation, addicted to drugs, and induced to commit aggressive acts. They are also dipped in boiling water, while other animals are shot in the face with high-powered rifles" (Williams 10). Even if these procedures are for medical development, it is at the animal's expense and dismisses animal welfare all together.
             The more commonly known injustice is when animals are used for mere product testers. This product testing is unnecessary, cruel, and inaccurate. The results are inaccurate because center conditions, such as stress from the laboratory environment, are not even noted. Therefore, this...

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