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ISSUES OF NON-HUMAN LIFE & DEATH - Coggle Diagram
ISSUES OF NON-HUMAN LIFE & DEATH
KEY MORAL ISSUES
Whether or not humans have the fight to use animals for food, In scientific procedures, blood sports or as a source for organ transplants, without their consent
(given that they possess sentience, social organisation and cognitive skills)
whether or not animals have a right to life
Whether or not animals have a right to protection from unessecary and unavoidable suffering
ANIMALS FOR FOOD; INTENSIVE FARMING
-The food industry is geared towards mass production to meet high demans
animals for the use in the food industry are often kept in crowded and flithy conditions or in tiny cages
They are subject, often with no anaesthetic, to painful procedures such as de-beaking and branding
The meat industry contributes to the global problem of hunger some cattle require far more grain then they can produce meat
ANIMALS FOR SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES; CLONING
There are mass breeding programmes in government-liscneced research institutions to produce sufficient animals for
testing the safety and efficiency of drugs and vaccines
research for certain diseases
Cloning of animals is also used for a range of things e.g preserving endangered species, making them disease resistant, improving mils & meat yields
With cloning, there are concerns about a slippey slope that will result in human-animal hybrids
there are also concerns about the risks and the suffering entailed in cloning
ANIMALS FOR BLOOD SPORTS
There are sports that involve the bloodshed for animals, and often death
Their sole intention is to provide source of entertainment for humans
the animals used undergo terrible physical and emotional suffering
ANIMALS AS A SOURCE OF ORGANS FOR TRANSPALNTS
Xenotransplantation is used in medical research e.g transplanting human tutor cells into mice
Trandsgenic pigs are being produced with the aim of transplanting their hearts into humandd, which will then address the shortage of human hearts for donation
There are concerns about the transmission of animal diseases into humans and their possible mutation into something even more deadly