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Debate over animal cruelty Group Proposal Animal cruelty refers to any act of violence, brutality, or even neglect directed toward animals. More and more today animals have become taken advantage of by humans. Humans have treated animals very poorly by doing various actions and expereiments to the animals. One being lab testing, which humans use the animals for testing various products such as cosmetics, different medicines, and other formuals before the perform them on humans. A second type of animal cruelty is abuse which one major problem throughout the world. People take advantage of the animals thinking it doesn't matter because they have no http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Animal_rights therefore they perform cruelty on animals because they can't have a say in what happens to them. An example of animal cruelty that occurs everyday is dogs being forced to fight eachother until one dies, which refers to the story of Mike Vick. He took puppies and forced them to fight one another until one died. The dogs appeared to be hungry and forgotten about. The question we are most concerned about is what can we do to help http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Animal_rights animal cruelty form happening everyday. Our plan is to look back and do research on why all this started.

What is the other side in this debate? Are you going to be reading arguments by people who defend dogfighting or animal testing? MSH

**Possible Sources**
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http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Animal_rights no author?

Bekoff, M.//The Animal Welfare Act: Are animals really better off?.// (2010, October 25) Retrieved 26 October, 2010, from change.org. http://animals.change.org/blog/category/animal_testing

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http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/animal-tests-military-defence.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/experiments_1.shtml

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Animal_testing#U.S._government_funded_vivisection_.26_programs