People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Purpose: I want to educate my audience on the various animal rights organizations and what they stand for. Thesis Sentence: I will discuss some information about specific animal rights organizations and how they have impacted the world and the lives of many animals. Introduction Hello everyone. My name is Saniyah Foster and I am currently enrolled in introduction to speech at Columbia College. Growing up my family has always taught me to be kind to animals and we were surrounded by many of them throughout

“I’d Rather Go Naked”: Sexualization of the Animal Rights Movement I. INTRODUCTION The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is one of the most recognizable organizations within the animal rights movement, due in part to their attention grabbing antics and controversial advertisements. While PETA has been successful in creating visual rhetoric that generally appeals to the audience’s cognitive reasoning and emotions they are often not successful in catalyzing actual change in behaviour

and present ethical guidelines on biomedical research Ethics can be defined as a set of moral values informing one’s decisions. But this set of moral values can be influenced by many different things, such as various cultures, religions, and even technological advancements. This is called moral relativism, the idea that there are no real truths in ethics and what is right or wrong varies person by person. That is why before there was any codes or set of rules regarding what was ethical put in place

Animal Abuse Movies, TV shows, circuses, and illegal gatherings in an old car garage are all places that animal abuse has taken place for the entertainment of humans. Since the 1900’s movie producers have been using animals in their productions (Dugas). Inhumane and unnecessary, are just two words that describe animal abuse, the use of animals for human entertainment is cruel and injustice. “Bite the Bullet”, a movie in the 1906 about a race through the American west, focused on the treatment

in the United States. However, there is one area of medicine in which the United States has fallen behind in comparison to its other global counterparts. This is the area of organ donation and transplantation. As of August 2013, the total number of people on the waitlist for organs in the United States was around 120,000 according to the United Network of Organ Sharing. Comparatively, the number of organ transplants performed in the United States was only 11,580 according to the United Network of Organ

living, however the meaning of ethics or what is ethical differs. Ethics is commonly associated with morality and Webster’s New world Dictionary defines ethical as “conforming to the standards of conduct of a given profession or group.” Knowing what a particular society considers ethical and unethical is what contributes to living successfully in that society. This is the same for researchers; researchers need to be aware of what is considered ethical and unethical conduct of scientific inquiry.

Advocating for the reduction of the use of factory foods is a challenge and a challenge that needs to be conquered. We have a civic obligation to eat less factory foods due to not only the concern for the ethical treatment of animals but for the consumers and for the environment. The more people that show hesitation or doubt on this issue, the more passive they and their social circle become. Just because something has been on the supermarket shelf for a long period of time does not mean that it

widespread halt of all carnivorous activity by humans. People who support this movement and choose to live without the use of animal products of any kind are called total vegans. An analysis of the reasons behind veganism reveals two main factors contributing to the life-altering decision to become a total vegan: moral and ethical values primarily regarding animal welfare and health concerns involved in the consumption of red meat. Many scholars and animal advocates believe that humans, as intellectual beings

effects on society. When scientist clone a certain animal or thing they always do it for very different reasons and their ideals are different. “The advantage of therapeutic cloning in medical treatment is that it would allow doctors to grow replacements for missing and damaged parts for their patients.”

The Controversial Issue of Animal Ethics The struggle against sickness and disease is not over, yet medical progress is being threatened by activists who would end the use of laboratory animals in the search for treatment and cures. Their well financed anti-research disinformation campaign is not the only weapon used by animal rights activists. The more extreme animal rights activists have used tactics of intimidation and terrorism, for example: April 26,1997, activists were arrested when