Bone Cancer In Dogs

I think she gave a great speech :]
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Luke talks about his experience organizing 2Dog2000Miles to raise awareness about Canine Cancer, the number one killer of dogs. Walking from Austin, TX with a final destination of Boston, he has tried for the last 18 months to spread the work in 1800 miles. He also announces the 2 mile 2 million dogs initiative that will start when he reaches Boston next May. See more pictures and video at K-9 Cart Company East fan club facebook page.
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We should ban all medical testing on animals

Ladies and Gentlemen every year, nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists, who perform out dated and inaccurate tests. We propose to prove to you that this is morally wrong and scientifically unsound.
As the affirmative team we define this topic to mean that Australia should pass a law prohibiting the use of all animals for all medical testing. We define animals as being “sentient beings,” meaning that they are creatures capable of feeling pleasure and pain.
Our model proposes that the government enacts a law which phases out the use of animals over the next ten years. The use of animals in medical testing will be outlawed by 2020.
As first speaker I will outline the reasons why Australia must ban the use of animals in medical testing because it is wrong to use them in this way,
Our second speaker will demonstrate to you that the use of animals in medical testing is obsolete science.
We of the affirmative team will establish that it is crucial that Australia prohibit all medical testing on animals.
My first point is that it is cruel to animals
My second point is that it is morally wrong to cause animals suffering for our benefit and that humans must protect the planet and all its inhabitance, including animals.
So to my first point, that it is cruel to animals. Animals suffer when they are used for medical testing. Mice are given cancerous tumors and then made suffer horrific pain to test drugs and treatments that MIGHT provide a cure. Large apes, such as the chimpanzee share 97% of human DNA; these include pain and most emotions. Imagine being forced to smoke when you while you’re pregnant with a baby girl, just to see what the effects are.
Research shows that only 5-25% of medical products tested on animals are actually useful for humans! 83% of substances tested on animals are metabolized differently by animals and humans. Many drugs have been tested on animals with good results, but have been proven harmful for hums. Before animals in laboratories die, they are routinely burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, given electric shocks, addicted to drugs, subjected to nearly freezing temperatures, dosed with radioactive elements, driven insane, deliberately inflicted with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, oral infections, stomach ulcers, Syphilis, herpes and AIDS. Their eyes are surgically removed, their brains and spinal cords damaged and their bones broken. The numbers are real and this is happening in our world every day, only because it “may” provide a cure for diseases.
A few weeks ago we all saw the case of Buckley the dog. We were all appalled to see how much this poor dog suffered when his ears and tail were cut off. Since then, thousands of people have applied to adopt him. But did we care about Buckley because of his suffering or simply because it was a careless act of cruelty? Can we say it was wrong to make Buckley suffer, but then overlook it if it had happened in a medical laboratory? Of course not! If it was wrong to cut off Buckley’s ears by his owner, it is wrong if a similar thing occurs in the name of science. This is why we should ban ALL medical testing on animals.
My second point is that it is morally wrong to cause animals suffering for human benefits. Animals feel pain and they suffer. It is therefore wrong to torture animals for any reason. As philosopher Jeremy Bentham stated “the question is not can animals reason, nor can they talk, but can they suffer?” The proponents of animal testing say that the ends justify the means however the amount of animals killed annually are usually killed for no purpose because the tests are repetitive and inconsistent. So maybe we have had some cures over the past but the killing is close to German genocide. In the past, people believed that slavery was acceptable because some races were inferior to others. Slavery was justified because of this belief. Today people excuse the abuse of animals because we are more intelligent beings. This is an old-fashioned, outmoded way of thinking. In the 21st Century we must realize that we don’t have the right to harm animals for our good. Animals should be considered precious, living things and not objects. As Stephan Clark, in a book called “The moral status of animals” argues that animals, just like humans, have the right to be themselves, fulfill their full potential. Experiments on animals stop them being themselves. We treat them as less important than us, we should accept that they are just different. Animal experimentation is another way we dominate other living things, a sign of our misguided attitude to nature.