American Horror Story Animal Farm - 1114 Words

Hanna Gutierrez Gutierrez 1 Ms. Baker English IV- 5 01 February 2016 American Horror Story: Animal Farm â€Å"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy† (â€Å"Animal Rights†). For decades, animal rights activist along with organizations such as PETA have been lobbying for legislative action on animal equality. Activists believe non-human animals should be granted the same protection under the law as humans, because they are implemented unethical treatment in factory farms, used needlessly for scientific research, and have a similar biological make up to humans, while the opposition argues that animal equality is immoral because of the Christian belief only humans are made in the image of God. Across the world farms, even organic, are mistreating†¦show more content†¦The animals are supposed to be able to graze freely, but instead they are locked up in overcrowded cages. Gutierrez 2 Clearly, new legislation on animal equality and improvement of standards of living need to be passed immediately. With new technology expanding the field of science, animal testing to find human cures has become irrelevant. â€Å"Most of these new alternatives that are emerging are coming from fields of biotechnology, hi-res scanning, and computer science† (Dvorsky). These new techniques make animal testing seem medieval. With biotechnology human organs are being replicated to practice test on. â€Å"Biotech firm Hurel has developed a lab grown human liver that can be used to break down chemicals† (Dvorsky). Animals who are known to be similar to humans, are no longer needed for research because the technological alternatives are much better. They are able to have stimulations of actual human organs and get better understandings of diseases and what is needed to cure it. Ultimately, in a world taken over by technology, out dated methods are not needed. Because animals are biologically similar to humans and achieve the same level if awareness, they should be granted the same rights. At Georgia State University’s Language and Research Centre studies are conducted on a female ape. She communicates using a keyboard and a synthesized voice (Cohen 58). Not only is the ape able to communicate via nonverbal cues, but nw is speaking at the same level as