According to debate.org, 67% of people believe that animals do in fact have rights (“Do Animals Have Rights?”). They believe that animals have a basic right to respectful treatment with clean food, water and shelter even though they are not human. However, by performing cruel experiments on animals, their moral rights are being infringed upon. Animals in the lab are treated very unfairly; often times the subjects are burned, not allowed to move, cut and tortured through the testing of chemicals (“About Animal Testing”). In addition, after the experiment is completed, the animals are often killed because they have been hurt and abused too heavily to live a normal life afterwards. Additionally, the Animal Welfare Act, which attempts to protect animals in research environments, does not protect rats, mice, birds, and fish, which are the most used animals in research ("Overview of the Animal Welfare Act"). Mark Bernstein, a professor at Purdue University, states: “To my mind, we shouldn't be thinking of monkeys as commodities, disposable resources that can be the object of distressing experimentation…we don’t treat comprised human beings that way” (“Is the Treatment of Animals Improving?”). Bernstein, along with many other individuals, agrees with this position as animals and humans are similar in the way that they both feel and experience pain; if it is not acceptable to treat humans in painful and cruel ways, why should it be okay to treat animals in this way? Animals are not given the option of participating in experiments where they are maliciously treated. By humans making decisions for animals because they cannot express their thoughts does not mean it is tolerable to take advantage of them in order to benefit the human race ("Save the Animals: Stop Animal Testing"). As a result, animal experimentation should be prohibited as it directly infringes upon their moral rights.