ENG110 Argument Essay: Advocating for Animal Rights and Welfare

This ENG110 argument essay advocates for granting animals equal rights as humans, emphasizing the need for equivalent deliberation and identical treatment to prevent pain and exploitation. The essay draws on the works of Singer (2017), Issitt & Newton (2016), and MITRA (2015) to support its claims. The essay highlights the importance of protecting animals, providing them with care, and ensuring they have the right to live freely. The annotated bibliography includes sources that discuss animal rights, the ability of animals to experience emotions and suffering, and the legal status of animals, with a focus on the Nonhuman Rights Project. The essay argues that animal exploitation should be stopped and those who exploit animals should be punished. It emphasizes the ethical responsibility of humans to protect all living beings and the ecosystem, thereby giving them a voice and ensuring their respectful place in the world.

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Argument essay
This essay argues that animals should be given equal rights as humans and treated equally as
human beings. They also deserve equivalent deliberation and identical treatment without pain
and exploitation so that they can live freely (Singer 2017). Therefore, it can be stated that
animal exploitation should be stopped and anyone doing so should be punished and severe
actions should be taken by the law to punish that person. They should be taken care of and
protected by the government whether they are ill or need food or water to care needs to be
taken of their family.
Annotated bibliography
Issitt, M., & Newton, H. (2016). Point: Animals deserve the same rights as humans.
Points Of View: Animal Rights, 2.
They should have privileges protected by the law because the people have an ethical
responsibility to safeguard and protect all beings be it living or non living because animals
are also living beings and also can experience pain and suffering and have emotions. The
difference is that they cannot speak that does not mean they do not have feelings or emotions.
In the past they were needed as food sources or for labor which now they are not. Issit and
Newton states that mechanism of cognitive specialist points out a sensitive awareness about
the well being of the animals. Newton tends to group animals with people in context of how
they need to be treated with respect and kindness and that they deserve it and should be
protected by the law. However, the basic moral principle of equality is to treat others with
equal considerations and does not need identical or equivalent treatment. The animals also
have the ability to suffer pain and loneliness like humans do. They can feel pain, happiness,
love, care, and if something is done that may hinder with their needs, they are ethically
obligated to take them into explanation. However, it is the moral duty of the human beings to
give them voice and protect them and the ecosystem as all living beings together make up a
balanced ecosystem. Everybody has the right to live peacefully to live in the beautiful
ecosystem and earn the respectful place. Animal rights are not just a viewpoint but it is a
community association that confronts society’s customary view that each and every one
nonhuman animals live exclusively for human utilization. The only chauvinism allows
humans to reject others the human rights that are expected.
MITRA, M., 2015. Animals are persons, too. Earth Island Journal, 29, p.17.
This article stated that chimpanzees being treated and eventually classified as people. The
writer states that he visited a zoo in Oakland where he met Eddie and Bernie along with five
other chimpanzees. Eddie was making gestures and signs that he had learnt when he was a
Hollywood performer and it showed that he could never go back in the wild and survive in
the forest. He had learnt human gestures and was desperate rather than being funny or cute.
The chimpanzees were either coming from movie background or from biology or research
tested labs. Moreover, there was no doubt that their living conditions were better than
previous and they took good care of themselves and had access to fresh air and sunshine.
Similarly, on the east coast, Wise hopes to break the glass so that chimpanzees can get out
and he is the founder and president of Non Human Rights project (NhRP). NhRP includes a
team of attorneys and lawful authority, and also Science Working Group guided by
biopsychologist Lori Marino which aspires to alter the lawful position of these animals from
meager things with no lawful rights, to people who have, at the very slightest, the essential

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civil rights to existence and freedom. Acknowledgment as lawful people, Wise considers,
would defend the animals from being detained imprisoned by confidential citizens, or in zoo,
festival, circus and theme park for example in SeaWorld and Six Flags. officially permitted
personhood would also guard them from being focused to all-encompassing experiment
conducted in laboratories. For years there has been continue to have an authorized barrier that
divide all nonhuman animals from living human beings. Wise stated over the phone from
Florida, where NhRP is located and headquartered that human beings are on one side, but as
well as business and other nonhuman units that are documented as people, and on the other
hand, there are nonhuman animals, who are definite as lawful belongings that can be kept and
owned and are fundamentally imperceptible to the law and the government. They are trying
to alter the whole legal discussion and actually hit a hole throughout that wall or barrier that
comes in the way. A legal human being is a body of what kind is it living or nonliving and
the authorized scheme agrees has wellbeing that should be protected and safeguarded.

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References
Issitt, M., & Newton, H. (2016). Point: Animals deserve the same rights as humans. Points Of
View: Animal Rights, 2.
MITRA, M., 2015. Animals are persons, too. Earth Island Journal, 29, p.17.
Singer, P., 2017. All animals are equal. In Animal Rights (pp. 3-16). Routledge.