Persuasive Essay On Animal Rights

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Be the Change: Cruelty Free Dogs are known as a “man’s best friend” and the thought of abusing a dog would be sickening, each year hundreds and thousands of innocent animals are being locked in cages inside laboratories. This includes cats, rabbits, mice, and even your best friend (dog). These animals are put through a test, when they are being injected with diseases, chemicals, and other potentially toxic foreign entities. Animals were put on this Earth to walk among us, so they should have the right to live a safe and free life. But that right is violated when they are forced to be used for research. True, we share some similarities like a beating heart, lungs, and eyes. However, we are completely different species and do not share the same …show more content…

Some may wonder “do animals have rights?” Yes, they do have rights. Animals have the right to live freely as much as we do, and they have the right to be treated equally. Animals feel, breathe, fear and think as we do. So, in many ways animals are just like us. Animals may not have human rights but they certainly have basic moral rights. But, when we look at all these testing labs these animals are no longer living a peaceful and free life. They have no choice but to be exploited. Unlike animals we can stand up for ourselves when we feel endangered or put in a situation that makes us uncomfortable. On the contrary, animals are helpless; they have no ability to be understood. This makes it easier for scientists to take advantage of them and to rob them of their freedom that they deserve. For example, as Tom Regan stated “Animals have basic moral right to respectful treatment…This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being more tools in a scientific experiment.” (qtd. in Orlans 26). Animals should be treated with the same respect as humans, they are defenseless and need our protection. It would be morally wrong to continue these experimentations no matter how much science may progress from these

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