Animals Rights

Hello eveybody,

Researchers and scientists are good in convincing people of their researches and experiments using animals in order to get rid and treat the most serious diseases in the world, without paying any attention for the animals’ pains. These researchers believe that animals has no sense or feelings, they could be tested in any time without any sense of humor. Animals have the right not to suffer, not to have pain and to be treated well.

Researches proved that humans and animals have the same central nervous system. Animals are similar to human being; they feel, hear, recognize, and even act like humans. It has been proved that animals have similar characteristics and reactions like humans; all apes have the ability to recognize themselves in huge mirrors, chimps, as well as birds, have the ability to use different tools in different ways, Kanzi, the Bonobo, that have the ability to understand over 3000 words of spoken English and Alex, the parrot, that identifies the objects and colors and could count from 0 to 6. In Jeremy Rifkin’s article “Man and other animals”, according to Steven Siviy, a behavioral scientist at Gettysburg college in Pennsylvania, “ If you believe in evolution by natural selection, how can you believe that feelings suddenly appeared with human beings” Jeremy Rifkin said (2003). Studies on pigs’ social behavior at Purdue University in the US have found that pigs are upset and depressed if they were isolated or even have no time to play with each other. These examples strongly indicate that animals have feelings which can not be denied.

Researchers state that animals have no rights as they have no responsibilities. “Animals have to be treated well but they do not have the rights as humans” Dr. John Young, Cedars Sinai Medical center (2008). Dr. Young believes that animals’ experiments are necessary for our life and having the same characteristics as humans is an advantage in order to treat the serious diseases. Animals have the right not to feel pain or fear, not to suffer without any reasons and not to be killed for others. “Animals have the right not to have pain, fear or physical deprivation inflicted upon them by us” Naturalist Roger Caras in his article “We Must Find Alternatives to Animals in Research”. They have the right not to be used for entertainment, for example, Bullfighting in Spain and Cockfighting in Mexico. They have the right to live in good conditions in their own environment.

Animals have sense of everything that going around them; isolation experimentations and even death. In my own point of view, animals have to be well treated exactly as humans, as I believe that they are on our planet for certain reasons not for testing. Nowadays, we have to have some experiments on animals to develop specific cures, but also we have to find some alternatives in order to give them their proper rights.