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Andre, Claire & Velasquez, Manuel. (1998). Of Cures and Creatures Great and Small. Issues in Ethics, 1, N.3. Retrieved October 2, 2007, from
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v1n3/cures.html
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Summary of article # 2:
In the article Of Cures and Creatures Great and Small author Claire Andre et al. opens the floor with startling facts about the cruelties animals are subjected to in the name of ‘research’. She presents facts of how over 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually with a quarter of them being just used to test products! An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments with at least ten percent not receiving painkillers. “Animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain” (1), and it is in this light that many argue painful experimentations should be halted. On the other hand, Andre points out a relevant fact that if animal testing didn’t happen, humans and society as a whole would suffer for it. “The value we place on their [animals] lives does not count as much as the value we place on human lives” (2) argues Andre. As she put it, if humans had to choose between saving a drowning baby or a drowning rat, they would pick the baby (2). Overall, however, she leaves the conclusion up for debate. Is it right to inflict pain on creatures so as to prevent it happening to humans, or is the infliction of pain wrong no matter what the circumstance? Because, after all, “Animals, like humans, are subjects of a life [too]” (2).
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what is your opinion?(granted that was not the assignment) but you obvously have one for bringing it up.
personly there needs to be balance, you cant do what ever you want to animals but at the same time a certain level of MODERATE usage for our own uses can be apporoporiate.
however when it comes to cosmetics, I find it rather pathetic, since that is a luxury good we could EASILY do with out.
(btw if you didnt see my last comment, check your icypanther email for Bleach movie details.)
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