as stated before was thinking about changing my idea, still keeping the animals but need to weave them in the brief.
im using the catogory of:
"Human kinds relationship to the environment "
im using the catogory of:
"Human kinds relationship to the environment "
Genetic engineering and selective breeding violate animal rights. It is manipulating animals for human ends. These Animals are nothing more than human commodities. We are not treating the animals with any respect and is a example of how human kind cant ruin our environment and nature.
genetically modified animals:
- fighting for humans entertainments,
- gone wrong, missing body parts, legs, eyes
- different living habits, change in nature
- different characteristics, super aggressive, always miserable
- getting sold by humans for slaves/pets/zoos
- short life span
- being tested, drugged up
here is some research i did to help me with my idea and some backup information:
Biotechnology
Biotechnology isn't something new - selective breeding to create more useful varieties of animals and plants is a form of biotechnology that human beings have used for thousands of years.
Biotechnology includes any use of science or technology to alter the characteristics of a particular breed or animal.
Biotechnology can be good or bad for animals - and it may also produce an answer to the ethical problems of experimenting on animals.
Transgenic animals raise a particularly difficult problem.
Animal rights
Genetic engineering and selective breeding appear to violate animal rights, because they involve manipulating animals for human ends as if the animals were nothing more than human property, rather than treating the animals as being of value in themselves.
Recent action to allow animals to be patented reinforces the idea of animals as human property, rather than beings in their own right.
Transgenic animals
Transgenic animals are animals that have been deliberately bred for research and that contain elements of two different species - they are creatures that blur the barrier between species.
These animals are often deliberately created with genetic defects, and these defects may well cause the animal to have a bad quality of life. A mouse has been created, for example, that has been genetically modified to develop cancer.
Ethical issues of transgenic animals
Transgenic animals raise several particular moral issues (quite apart from any damage they might do to the environment):
• Are animals that combine species an unethical alteration of the natural order of the universe?
• Is it unethical to modify an animal's genetic make-up for a specific purpose, without knowing in
advance if there will be any side-effects that will cause suffering to the animal?
advance if there will be any side-effects that will cause suffering to the animal?
• Does 'creating' animals by genetic engineering amount to treat the animals entirely as
commodities?
commodities?
• Is it unethical to create 'diseased' animals that are very likely to suffer?
• Suffering may last for a long time in these animals as researchers want to conduct long-term
investigations into the development of diseases
investigations into the development of diseases
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/biotechnology_1.shtml