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A Fight For Animal Rights

Animals are living, breathing, and moving organisms just like humans. They have brains, feelings, and even families. So why is it that we use them for our testing? Hair-care products, make-up, and many other products than men and women use in their everyday lives are tested on animals, such as rats or mice. Animal testing is morally wrong and should be illegal.
After reading Tom Regan’s essay, “The Case for Animal Rights,” Carl Cohen’s essay, “The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research,” and Jacqueline Tresl’s essay, “The Broken Window: Laying Down the Law for Animals,” the realization occurs that even testing on animals to find cures is wrong. Using animals as test subjects is both morally and ethically unsound.
Regan states is his essay, “there are, I know, people who profess to believe in animals rights but do not avow these goals. Factory farming, they say, is wrong – it violates animals’ right – but traditional animal agricul...

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