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    The document summarizes the key points from articles discussing whether animals should have the right to be treated humanely. The group argues that while eating animals should be allowed, they should be treated and killed humanely without suffering. The main points made are that animals should be killed painlessly, meat provides nutrients not found in plants, animals can learn and feel emotions similarly to humans, eating meat does not inherently raise health risks, and animals deserve to live free from suffering.

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    The document summarizes the key points from articles discussing whether animals should have the right to be treated humanely. The group argues that while eating animals should be allowed, they should be treated and killed humanely without suffering. The main points made are that animals should be killed painlessly, meat provides nutrients not found in plants, animals can learn and feel emotions similarly to humans, eating meat does not inherently raise health risks, and animals deserve to live free from suffering.

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    The document summarizes the key points from articles discussing whether animals should have the right to be treated humanely. The group argues that while eating animals should be allowed, they should be treated and killed humanely without suffering. The main points made are that animals should be killed painlessly, meat provides nutrients not found in plants, animals can learn and feel emotions similarly to humans, eating meat does not inherently raise health risks, and animals deserve to live free from suffering.

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    Name: Cesar Arevalo

    Stance: M

    Debate Worksheet
    Should animals have the right to be treated
    humanely?
    Black: you do work on your own
    Red: you do together as a group (you are each
    responsible for filling out your own document)
    Please make sure your responses are in blue.
    Your source linked:
    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-04-
    28/animal-rights-animal-wrongs
    Your five main points from researched article:

    1. There should be regular checking on


    slaughterhouses to ensure that animals are not
    mistreated and have a swift death.
    2. Animals are under the category of legal
    things, by that, it means that they can be of
    property of someone to do whatever they wish with
    them, though it is not encouraged to abuse or
    torment the animal, it is still their property.
    3. The term animal can be very vague; do fish,
    vertebrae, insects, reptiles, invertebrates and
    amphibians also count under the name of animal?
    Should they also be given these rights? Or just
    cattle?
    4. There are also many animals out there that can
    literally not feel pain or suffer. These are animals
    that should not have these rights since they have
    no sense of pain to begin with.
    5. Animals that have developed self awareness
    and sentience should not be treated harshly, they
    should have humane deaths if they are sought for
    their meat.
    Your five main points from ERWC article:

    1. Animals that learn new tricks and have a


    general sense of intelligence should be treated
    humanely, such as Betty the bird.
    2. Animals can learn to communicate with humans,
    they can adapt and become more like us, such as
    Koko, who is a gorilla who manage to learn American
    Sign Language.
    3. Another example are elephants, who mourn for
    their dead for multiple days.
    4. Natural selection has led to the evolution of not
    only us humans, but animals as well, they have
    learned countless amounts of self awareness and
    sentience.
    5. Just like we teach our children, many other
    animals also teach their young. Animals share many
    traits alongside us.

    Groups five main points overall (from both articles):

    1. When animals are being killed they should be


    killed in a way that they do not suffer for a long
    period of time
    2. Meat contains nutrients and high quality protein
    (not found in vegetables)
    3. Animals have the ability to learn like humans
    and they can communicate with them. They also feel
    pain and get depressed. They share some
    characteristics with humans and deserve (at least)
    some of the same rights.
    4. Meat doesn't raise your risk of cardiovascular
    diseases or diabetes.
    5. Vegetarians kill living plants and eat them, so
    why can't we eat meat?
    Five rebuttal arguments: (what you think opponents
    main argument will be)
    1. The harvest of plants or organics foods kills and
    harms animals because of traps, poisons, pesticides,
    and other license forms of extermination.
    2. There are around 850 million people worldwide
    that don't have enough calories and they have to eat
    meat in order to obtain all the calories needed.
    3. Eating meat gives us vitamin B12. Vitamin B12
    is not giving by any plant or sunlight. Vitamin B12 is
    crucial to a human's brain, nervous system and for
    healthy blood cells.
    4. Deciding which animals to kill or not to kill
    would be implying that the morality concerning
    killing or eating or not killing or eating certain
    animals would be based on nothing more than whim,
    says
    5. Imagine if those animals were people, how
    would you feel about it now that theyre people
    being chained and tortured and even being provided
    any semblance of freedom or comfort?
    Introduction: (This is your attention getter) This can be
    done by sharing a story, a shocking fact or statistic, a
    quote with an explanation, etc.

    We, in the middle, believe that the eating of animals


    should not be barred whatsoever, however, we also
    believe that these animals should be treated humanely,
    without any suffering or unnecessary violence or malice
    or ill will.
    Points: (name of point, explanation and evidence to back
    up point)

    Point 1: Animals should be killed in a way that they do


    not suffer for a long period of time.
    Explanation: This way they would die a humane and
    painless death.
    Evidence: Animal abuse in slaughterhouses.
    Point 2: Meat contains nutrients and high quality
    proteins (not found in vegetables).
    Explanation: This is due to meat being mainly made out
    of proteins.
    Evidence: Meat contains many proteins.

    Point 3: Animals have the ability to learn like humans


    and they can communicate with them. They also feel pain
    and get depressed. They share some characteristics with
    humans and deserve (at least) some of the same rights.
    Explanation: Animals have a mental capability to learn
    and understand simple commands.
    Evidence: Koko the gorilla learn how to speak ASL
    fluently.

    Point 4: Eating meat doesn't raise your risk of


    cardiovascular diseases or diabetes.
    Explanation: Consumption of meat is not related to
    blood-related diseases.
    Evidence: Diseases like this are caused by fat, grease,
    and lack of exercise, atrophy

    Point 5: Animals surely deserve to live their lives free


    from suffering and exploitation.
    Explanation: Animals should be able to live in liberty,
    void of any type of abuse.
    Evidence: Their lives should be treated humanely as it is
    just simply correct.

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