The writer of this article advocates for animal rights. The major interest the author had in writing this article was to prevent the chimps, who were freed from their harsh testing environment, from being sent back to the same testing facility that neglected them in the first place. This author is credible because he works for a newspaper which has everything edited by another person before being published. This source contains a slight bias because the author mainly points out animal cruelty facts, but the author also references facts related to benefits of using apes for testing because of their similarity to humans. Even with this point however, the author showed slight bias toward support of animal …show more content…
In the sources there are clearly two sides to this argument and either has contrasting views towards the issue, either referencing the benefits of animal testing or the cruelty of animal neglect. The positions of my sources on this issue and evidence supporting their claims influence my opinion greatly because I don’t yet know which side I fall on in this issue. In the future, I may narrow my question to highlight a specific issue that affects both sides on the argument of animal rights to increase the amount of detail about this subject that I include in my