Animal Rights

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Animal Rights

• Food
• Medicine
• Research
• Cosmetics
• Clothes
• Sport

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Food

• 9.7 Billion Animals are killed for food every
  year in the USA.
• 95 of these animals are factory Farmed.

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Factory Farms

• 95 of all animals are farmed by this method.
• Vast warehouses are used to raise livestock.

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Chicken
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Chickens off to the Slaughter House
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Chicken at Slaughter
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Pigs on the Farm
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All of the parts will be used.
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Veal Calf- Cant even move!
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Got Milk?
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Cattle, on the range
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Cow Slaughter
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Duck Farm
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DOWNED ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT

• S. 267 DOWNED ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT
• A Bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act of
  1921, to make it unlawful for any stockyard
  owner, market agency, or dealer to transfer or
  market nonambulatory livestock, and for other
  purposes.
• (b) UNLAWFUL PRACTICES- It shall be unlawful for
  any stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer to
  buy, sell, give, receive, transfer, market, hold,
  or drag any nonambulatory livestock unless the
  nonambulatory livestock has been humanely
  euthanized.'.

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Beef, its whats for Dinner!

• If the animal cant move, then it cant
  technically be sold.

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Bah, Bah

• This little lamb will be on your table soon!

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Animal Testing

• Millions of animals are used for research every
  year.

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How much animal research is done?

• There were about two and three quarter million
  scientific procedures using animals in 2003. The
  exact figure was 2,791,781. In the United Kingdom

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Animals Used in Research, UK
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Government Mandated Testing

• A lethal poisoning test invented around the time
  of World War I--in which animals are force-fed
  increasing doses of a chemical until they die--is
  still the single most common animal test in use
  today.
• Government regulations still require chemical
  manufacturers to squirt burning chemicals into
  rabbits' eyes and onto their shaved skin.
• None of these animal tests has ever been formally
  proved to be relevant to or able to accurately
  predict human health effects.

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Numbers relate to regulated procedures on animals
in Great Britain in 2003

• 1. 85 Rats, mice and other rodents. All
  specially bred laboratory species
• 2. 11 Fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds
  (including many fertilized hen's eggs)
• 3. 1 Small mammals other than rodents, mostly
  rabbits and ferrets
• 4. 2.7 Sheep, cows, pigs and other large mammals
  
• 5. 0.3 Dogs and cats. Specially bred for
  research. No strays or unwanted pets can be used
• 6. 0.17 Monkeys, such as marmosets and macaques.
  Chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas have not
  been used in this country for over 20 years and
  their use is now banned.

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Doesn't the law protect animals from cruelty?

• There is no law in the U.S. that prohibits any
  animal experiment, no matter how frivolous or
  painful. The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) is very
  weak and poorly enforced, and it does not protect
  rats and mice (the most common victims of animal
  experiments), cold-blooded animals, birds, or
  animals who are traditionally used for food.
• Under the AWA, animals can be starved,
  electrically shocked, driven insane, or burned
  with a blowtorchas long as its done in a clean
  laboratory.

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Testing for what?
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Rabbits have chemical injected into their eyes
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Rabbit Testing
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Mouse test
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Animal Testing

• Testing of Cosmetics and Household Products

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Animal testing lead to human deaths

• Asbestos and Cancer
• Year that the carcinogenic effects of asbestos
  were suspected, based on clinical (human)
  studies 1907
• Year that the New York Academy of Sciences
  assured people that animal studies indicated that
  there was
• nothing to fear from asbestos 1965
• Year that the EPA recommended an immediate ban on
  asbestos 1986

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Polio

• The work on prevention was long delayed
• by the erroneous conception of the nature of
• the human disease based on misleading
• experimental models of disease in
• monkeys. ? Dr. Albert Sabin (scientist
• credited with development of polio vaccine,
• along with Dr. Jonas Salk)

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Penicillin

• How fortunate we didnt have these
• animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin
• would probably never been granted a license, and
  possibly the whole field of antibiotics might
  never have been realized. Sir Alexander Fleming
• (scientist credited with discovering penicillin)

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FDA and Animal Testing

• FDA Study Of 198 new medications introduced to
  the market between 1976 to 1985, 52 percent were
  either withdrawn or relabeled because of severe
  side effects not predicted through animal
  studies.

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Rats and Mice

• Studies conducted on mice and rats found that 46
  percent of chemicals found to be cancer-causing
  in rats were not cancer-causing in mice.
• Of 20 compounds known not to cause cancer in
  humans, 19 caused cancer in mice.

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Cosmetics

• Cow Brain and Spinal Tissue in Lip Stick!

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Clothing
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The State of the Fur Industry

• The total export value of the fur industry in
  Canada has been steadily increasing, from
  CAN185,309,841 in 2001 for "raw furskins" to
  CAN 242,556,390 in 2005.
• For processes/tanned skins, the export value has
  risen from CAN 216,081,324 in 2001 CAN
  286,760,595 in 2005, according to Industry
  Canada.

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Price of seal Pelt

• The value of the seal skin exports (see table
  above) is about 5 of the total value of the
  Canadian fur industry. in 2001, Canada's fur
  industry was valued at 335 million, and seal fur
  was a small portion of Canada's fur trade.
• The prices of seal pelts have been rising in the
  past couple years. In 2003, they sold for
  approximately CAN45 . In 2005, they sold for
  about CAN70

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JLodown.com

• J. Lo knows what animals who are killed for their
  skins endure-PETA has contacted her with letters
  and videos no less than a dozen times. Lopez may
  try to convince her fans that her rabbit-trimmed
  jackets are a must-have, but what she won't tell
  you is that bunnies killed for fur coats scream
  as they are skinned alive! Animals used for their
  skins endure prolonged, painful, early deaths.

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Sheep Wool
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Wool
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Chinese Food?

• Honey-Garlic Chicken, please!

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• Then I smelled a rat.

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• One of my co-workers had a tasty lunch at a local
  Chinese restaurant. Upon returning back to work,
  one hour later she began to vomit uncontrollably.
  She was finally rushed to the hospital via
  ambulance. The doctor took a specimen from her
  vomit. The doctor informed the lady that the
  reason she was vomiting was because she ate some
  cat, and not only that, but the cat she ate had a
  venereal disease. The restaurant was closed for
  only two hours. The Lady is OK. She spoke with
  two lawyers about a law suit, however the lawyers
  wanted money up front. She did not have the up
  front cash needed, and she also said that she did
  not want to be bothered with a long drawn out
  lawsuit. She says that she thanks God for her
  life and health. She wants to move on with her
  life. A year later the restaurant was finally
  closed for good.
• This is a true story.

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BEWARE - Stay Away from the following dishes

• Cat Fried Rice
• Cat Drop Soup
• Cat Fu Young
• Sweet Sour Kitty-Cat
• Egg Drop Cat
• Kitty-Cat Fried Egg Rolls
• Egg Plant Kitty
• Cat Wings
• Pepper Cat
• Peaking Cat
• Lemon Cat

• Cashier Kitty- Cat
• Cat Chow Main
• Hot Braised Kitty-Cat
• Stir Fry Cat
• Poo Poo Cat
• Tum Yum Cat
• Tofu Cat
• Moo Goo Guy Cat
• Shrimp Fried Cat
• House Cat Special
• Fried Shrimp - Fried in Cat Fat
• Kitty-Kat Fortune Cookies

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Rat or cat?
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Philosophical Arguments

• Descartes
• Kant
• Utilitarian

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Descartes

• Descartes maintained that animals were nothing
  more than unconscious machines. He felt that an
  animals cry was akin to the squeaking of a clock
  that needed oiling.

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No Soul

• Animals lack a soul, therefore they do not have
  any rights

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Animal Rights

• Descartes
• 1. If you do not have a soul,
• Then you do not have rights.
• 2. Animals do not have souls.
• 3. Therefore, Animals do not have rights.

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Kant- Animal Rights

• 1. If you do not have rationality
• Then you do not have Rights.
• 2. Animals do not have rationality.
• 3. Therefore, Animals do not have rights.

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Reductio ad um Serdum

• 1. If you do not have rationality
• Then you do not have Rights.
• 2. Babies do not have rationality
• 3. Therefore, Babies do not have rights.

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Rationality/ Moral Responsibility

• 1. If you do not have rationality
• then you do not have Moral Responsibility.
• 2. Animals do not have rationality.
• 3. Therefore, Animals do not have Moral
  Responsibility.

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Utilitarianism Animal rights

• 1. If you have the capacity to feel pain or
  pleasure, then you have rights.
• 2. Animals have the capacity to feel pain and
  pleasure.
• 3. Therefore Animals have rights.

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People have Rights too

• 1. If you have the capacity to feel pain or
  pleasure, then you have rights.
• 2. People have the capacity to feel pain and
  pleasure.
• 3. Therefore People have rights.

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Crazy Utilitarian Argument

• 1. People have rights.
• 2. Animals have rights.
• 3. Therefore people and animals have the same
  rights.
• People are equal to Goats.

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Equivocation

• Equivocation in the use of the term rights
• People have the right to drive and vote,
• Goats have the same rights too.

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What Rights

• People have Rights
• Animals have Rights
• But it is not specified what rights each have-
  there is no reason to assume they have the same
  rights.

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Babies Goats

• Babies cant vote or drive, and yet they have
  rights-
• As such, Goats have the same rights as Babies.

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Babies Goats

• 1. People have rights.
• 2. Animals have rights.
• 3. Therefore people and animals have the same
  rights.
• People are equal to Goats.

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Potential rationality

• 1. If you have the potential for rationality,
  then you have rights.
• 2. Babies have the potential for rationality
• 3. Therefore babies have rights.

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Animal potential rationality

• 1.If you have the potential for rationality,
• Then you have rights.
• 2. Animals do not have the potential for
  rationality
• 3. Therefore animals do not have rights.

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Potential Rationality Applied

• Mentally handicapped people and fetuses, people
  with brain injuries, people in comas or
  vegetative states all lack the potential for
  rationality- as such they lack rights.