Animal Liberation Front

Drug companies have other agendas especially when it comes to making a profit through our pets. Drugs or known by their other name in the professional field (Medicine) has been right along side with the evolution of humanity furthermore the advancement of technology. Pets both Domestic and exotic have skyrocketed in popularity and according to the APPA National Pet Owners survey, “65% of U.S households own a pet, which equates to 79.7 million homes” (APPA). But along with Pets comes veterinarian…

companies, schools, and labs from continuing to place these animals in dangerous situations. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is an organization, founded by attorneys, which files lawsuits to protect animals. Their goal is to assure the punishment of animal abusers. There are also many organizations that work to prevent animal cruelty and misuse, such as PETA, ASPCA, and national and state humane societies. Some experiments on animals could be considered abuse, and therefore would be…

estimated 100,000-200,000 animals are testing on for the safety of cosmetic products each year around the world. The topic is cosmetic testing on animals to make sure that products are safe for use. Testing cosmetics on animals is a type of animal testing used to test the safety and hypoallergenic properties of products for use by humans. Because of the harm done to the animal subjects, this testing is opposed by animal rights activists and others. Cosmetic testing on animals is necessary to…

Animal testing is the use of non-human animals in research and development projects. These research and development projects consist of medical treatments, determining the harmfulness of medicines, and inspecting the safety of products. By the mid-19th centuries, movements that prevented animal cruelty spread in Europe causing governments to pass related laws. In fact, organizations such as, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and similar groups, focus on the fact that…

Animal abuse has been a constant, underlying issue in modern society for a long time. Hidden in plain sight, most people tend to ignore or miss the signs of animal abuse. This issue is addressed in the advertisements created by Mikayla Slom and Alexandria Wai at the ISF Academy. Designed to appeal to an audience of animal lovers, the two advertisements suggest that animal cruelty is hidden away in many aspects of our lives and aim to make the viewer take action. These two advertisements both…

more effectively prevent most methods of animal cruelty and neglect, because animals should not be punished or killed for being born at the wrong time and place. Animals shouldn’t be penalized for no longer being cute or young. Animals shouldn’t be used as play toys for young children or for fighting to entertain men to gain profit. Animals should not be crammed into a small area with an unfair life because they will become food in their near future. Yes, animals are not always treated badly but…

with our ears. We have been researching it for hundreds of years and I believe we can for a few hundred more. These waves are used in many other applications such as fishing, to detect fish, or sonar in submarines to detect where they are. Some animals actually use infrasound to communicate over long distances…

When speaking of animal research, it is easy to see it as a morbid, more grotesque field. This is likely because it is easy to see the words “research” and “experimentation” as surgeries that are performed to see if something works and could usually result in death of the animal used in the experiment. However, this is not so, with much of today’s technology animal research and experimentation is performed when there is no better alternative and with medical advancements we can safely perform…

*95% of animals used for experiments are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act, the only act governing animal testing. Laws protecting animals need to include test animals used for experiments and these laws should be more strongly enforced. In order to minimize the number of animals used for testing and make sure they are not mistreated, the laws need to make it harder for researchers to use animals, making alternatives more appealing. Many people would agree that animal testing is morally…

The animal rights movement seeks to include non-human animals in the so-called moral community that humans belong to, by encouraging others to respect their basic interests as they would the interests of a human. In practical terms, the adoption of animal rights into legislation would mean that non-human animals could not be used for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation. Several industries have been affected positively by the animal rights movement. From agriculture to fashion to…