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
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95% of all
animals are
farmed by this
method.
Vast
warehouses
are used to
raise livestock.
Chicken
Chickens off to the Slaughter
House
Chicken at Slaughter
Pigs on the Farm
All of the parts will be used.
http://www.taifun.fi/redmeat/spinalc
ord.htm
Veal Calf- Can’t even move!
Got Milk?
Cattle, on the range
Cow Slaughter
Duck Farm
DOWNED ANIMAL PROTECTION
ACT
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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.'.
Beef, it’s what’s for Dinner!
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If the animal
can’t move,
then it can’t
technically
be sold.
Bah, Bah
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This little
lamb will
be on
your
table
soon!
Animal Testing
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Millions of
animals
are used
for
research
every
year.
How much animal research is
done?
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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
Animal’s Used in Research, UK
Government Mandated Testing
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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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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.
Numbers relate to regulated
procedures on animals in Great
Britain in 2003
“Doesn't the law protect animals from cruelty?”
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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 blowtorch—as
long as it’s done in a clean laboratory.
Testing for what?
Rabbits have chemical injected into
their eyes
Rabbit Testing
Mouse test…
Animal Testing
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Testing of
Cosmetics and
Household
Products
Animal testing lead to human
deaths
 Asbestos and Cancer
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Year that the carcinogenic effects of asbestos
were suspected, based on clinical (human)
studies: 1907
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Year that the New York Academy of Sciences
assured people that animal studies indicated
that there was
nothing to fear from asbestos: 1965
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Year that the EPA recommended an immediate
ban on asbestos: 1986
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)
Penicillin
“How fortunate we didn’t 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)
FDA and Animal Testing
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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.
Rats and Mice
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Studies conducted on mice and rats found
that 46 percent of chemicals found to be
cancer-causing in rats were not cancercausing in mice.
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Of 20 compounds known not to cause
cancer in humans, 19 caused cancer in
mice.
Cosmetics
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Cow Brain and
Spinal Tissue in
Lip Stick!
Clothing
The State of the Fur Industry
The total export value of the fur
industry in Canada has been steadily
increasing, from CAN$185,309,841 in
2001 for "raw furskins" to CAN$
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
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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 CAN$45 . In 2005, they sold
for about CAN$70
JLodown.com
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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.
Sheep = Wool
Wool
Chinese Food?
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Honey-Garlic
Chicken,
please!
Then I smelled a rat….
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.
BEWARE - Stay Away from the
following dishes:
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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
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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
Rat or cat?
Philosophical Arguments
Descartes
 Kant
 Utilitarian
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Descartes
Descartes maintained that
animals were nothing more
than unconscious
machines. He felt that an
animal’s cry was akin to
the squeaking of a clock
that needed oiling.
No Soul
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Animals lack a soul, therefore they do not
have any rights
Animal Rights
Descartes:
 1. If you do not have a soul,
 Then you do not have rights.
 2. Animals do not have souls.
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3. Therefore, Animals do not have rights.
Kant- Animal Rights
1. If you do not have rationality;
 Then you do not have Rights.
 2. Animals do not have rationality.
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3. Therefore, Animals do not have rights.
Reductio ad um Serdum
1. If you do not have rationality;
 Then you do not have Rights.
 2. Babies do not have rationality
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3. Therefore, Babies do not have rights.
Rationality/ Moral Responsibility
1. If you do not have rationality;
then you do not have Moral Responsibility.
 2. Animals do not have rationality.
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3. Therefore, Animals do not have Moral
Responsibility.
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.
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3. Therefore: People have rights.
Crazy Utilitarian Argument
1. People have rights.
 2. Animals have rights.
 3. Therefore people and animals have the
same rights.
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People are equal to Goats.
Equivocation
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Equivocation in the use of the term “rights”
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People have the right to drive and vote,
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Goats have the same “rights” too.
What Rights
People have Rights
 Animals have Rights
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But it is not specified what rights each
have- there is no reason to assume they
have the same rights.
Babies = Goats
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Babies can’t vote or drive, and yet they
have rights-
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As such, Goats have the same rights as
Babies.
Babies = Goats
1. People have rights.
 2. Animals have rights.
 3. Therefore people and animals have the
same rights.
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People are equal to Goats.
Potential rationality
1. If you have the potential for rationality,
then you have rights.
 2. Babies have the potential for rationality
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3. Therefore babies have rights.
Animal potential rationality
1.If you have the potential for rationality,
 Then you have rights.
 2. Animals do not have the potential for
rationality
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3. Therefore animals do not have rights.
Potential Rationality Applied
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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.