https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k The progression of how animal rights affected America. en-us 2022-03-30 12:53:11 UTC 2026-02-19 18:43:52 UTC hello@padlet.com nobleelisabeth https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2124788060 The one minute video, “Lab Technicians Test Drugs on Animals ca. 1956,” by The WPA Film Library, depicts how animals were treated at research and/or medical facilities. As the 1950’s pharmaceutical industry boomed, it became more and more common to find mice, rats, gerbils, and other small rodents living inside medicine and research labs. This testing, however, was often brutal. The animals would stay in the tiniest of containers with five others, and would get probed and picked at like inanimate objects. The industry “downplayed” this treatment though, in favor of telling people that animal experiments are needed for the importance of “consumer product safety.” At the time, people didn’t know how truly harmful these tests could become. ]]> 2022-04-01 03:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2124788060 nobleelisabeth https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2125914064 An article titled “Pepper Goes Missing” is the story of a female dalmatian, Pepper, and how she changed the American societal views on animal experimentation. Pepper belonged to the Lakavages, who one night, let her out for an “evening stroll.” When they went to let her back in again, she was gone. They later found out that she had been stolen and taken to a research facility, where she ended up dying on the operation table due to a procedure that had gone “awry.” Hope Ferdowsian, an advocate for both human and animal rights, wrote the article “Rethinking the Ethics of Animal Research”, stating that the "Americans were stunned to read about Pepper", and how this situation invoked a "public fury" within the hearts of the people. The specific words like “fury” and “stunned” depict a dazed and confused America at this information. ]]> 2022-04-01 18:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2125914064 nobleelisabeth https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2125922779 Information Report published a twenty-page newspaper covering the Animal Welfare Institute. At the end of page 12, it talks about how Joseph Resnick, a New York Representative, wanted to introduce a bill against theft of pets and animals. It says that he wanted to create this law because he was sent an “appeal for help in retrieving a dog believed to have been stolen and transported across state lines to an animal dealer in his District.” The article then goes to describe the exact case of Pepper. Resnick was the one who introduced the law, which later became known as the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), which was signed officially by President Lyndon Johnson. It was around the time the law started being procured by Congress, that the general public was hoping its government would do something about the inhumane research facilities. The public was so outraged that they would send “stimulated…letters” to newspapers and Congress itself (National Agricultural Library, Legislative History of the Animal Welfare Act: Introduction) Eventually, on August 24, 1966, the bill was signed, and dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and hamsters, and rabbits were now legally required to be licensed before being used for research, and also pet/animal theft is illegal as well.]]> 2022-04-01 18:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2125922779 nobleelisabeth https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2125974911 The effect that the pharmaceutical industry, animals being stolen and researched and tested on, and the Animal Welfare Act had on America was that of a public people whose hearts have been shattered and reinvented into those of persevering, caring, and furious soldiers who continually fight, even today, for the rights of animals. Peter Singer, an animal rights activist (though, he would be reluctant to call himself that as he states in his 2011 interview with Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs) talks about what he believes concerning animal rights, and if they should be considered in the same realm as human rights: “I want to say that we should give equal consideration to the interests of all beings that have interests - all beings, for example, that can feel pain - irrespective of their species, just as everybody now agrees we should give equal consideration to the interests of human beings irrespective of their race or sex.” So, as the fight for animal rights continues, people are sure to follow Singer’s ideals, as they most explicitly state a logical reasoning for both humans and animals’ rights, and how both matter so very much.]]> 2022-04-01 19:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2125974911 jannatnafiza https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2126744084 In 1906, the novel "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, exposed the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public, prompting the creation of new federal food safety regulations. According to the Constitutional rights foundation, “Killing gangs" held jobs like "knockers," "rippers," "leg breakers," and "gutters". The animal carcasses moved continuously on hooks until processed into fresh, smoked, salted, pickled, and canned meats. The organs, bones, fat, and other scraps ended up as lard, soap, and fertilizer. The workers said that the meat-packing companies "used everything but the squeal"( CRF). This book is one of the important parts of the animal rights movement because it exposes early working conditions in the factories as well as the meatpacking process. It also describes how they would treat the animals and how each part of the animal's meat ends up looking like something such as soap. The Jungle helped to stop the poor working conditions as well as animal abuse which holds a huge part in the animal rights movement. ]]> 2022-04-02 21:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2126744084 jannatnafiza https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2126745917 In 2004, Clothing chain Forever 21 established a permanent fur-free policy in which they promised to stop selling fur. According to their terms and guidelines, “We have worked with PETA to meet guidelines to avoid cruelty to animals and continue to look for ways to improve.”( Forever 21). PETA is also known as people for the Ethical treatment of animals. PETA was founded in 1980 and it allows people to take on the vegan lifestyle. This event is a very important part of the Animal rights movement because it stopped using animal fur which would help so many animals to survive and would protect them from unnecessary killing. Also, so many animals are dying because of the use of fur in the fashion industry and a huge fashion industry like Forever 21 would protect the animals and it would inspire many others. ]]> 2022-04-02 21:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2126745917 jannatnafiza https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2126746752 In 2011, President Barack Obama and congress lifted the ban on USDA funding for horse inspection. Congress decided not to extend a ban on USDA horse meat inspections in 2011. Congress had prohibited the USDA from using taxpayer funds for horse slaughter inspections for the previous five years. According to ABC, "There are currently no establishments in the United States that slaughter horses,”( ABC). Even though the ban has been lifted, there are still no protocols in place for the USDA to conduct animal inspections. This event is one of the important timelines of the animal rights movement because it had so many horses ever since. Lifting the bad increases more abuse, neglect, and abandonment of horses and it creates severe economic losses. Not only that, lifting the ban causes more harmful slaughtering of horses, and dangerous, unhealthy meatpacking, which is causing wider effects on the horse industry.]]> 2022-04-02 21:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2126746752 jannatnafiza https://padlet.com/nobleelisabeth/ghpdny8sxqgojd7k/wish/2126747565 In 2014, India banned cosmetic testing on animals, the first Asian country to do so. Every year, animals suffer and die as a result of cosmetic testing. In these tests, chemicals are forced down the animals' throats, into their eyes, and onto their shaved skin in order to demonstrate their reactions and ensure the safety of human use. According to Maulekhi, trustee of the People for Animals, “India has shown outstanding leadership....by working so diligently with the ‘Be Cruelty-Free’ India our policymakers have put India on the map as a country transforming its laboratories and regulation from outdated test methods to state of art science”(Maulekhi). India being the first country to ban cosmetic testing on animals is an important part of the animal rights movement and it is also shaping the country as well as its laboratories and new testing methods for science. 

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