Güray Yiğit
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Mr. Dunkley
December 18, 2015 Animal rights and moral obligations on animals are the most disputable issues of our century. The use of nonhuman animals in researches is a subject of concern which is highly concern that everyone is looking at this issue from various different perspectives. Gary L. Francione looks from both of the sides that whether we have rights to use animals laboratory experimentations or not, by giving different arguments about the issue of biomedical research. Many people believe that it is inaccurate how animals suffer unreasonably. In animal testing, nonhuman animals are used to test the possible harms and exhibit the level of effectiveness of products in the fields of medicine and cosmestics. However, animal researches leads to the isolation of animals as they are stuck in cages, cause them pain and in addition to that, it causes animals to die.
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Francione, 244). In 1940s, the experiments that were done on jews helped the progress of both science and medicine by Nazi’s and humans call it as a guilt of humanity. However, it has the same aim of animal testing. So, what is the justification of using animals in experiments? In past, even some philosophers where thinking that animals are not sentient (Gary L. Francione, 244). However, in some researches and documentaries, we see that they are able to recognize what is going around them. They also have feelings and they feel the pain, like us. Those people, who defend that nonhuman animals should be used in researches, argue that animals do not have moral characteristics, they cannot reason and defend their rights. Nevertheless, some experiments, not in biological ones, show that animals can act in humanitarian ways towards the members of their own species. Also, they have some feelings, that even some humans do not use them a lot, like empathy and being