The Effects of Animal Experimentation

Tens of millions of animals are killed or maimed each year through research on the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, chemicals, and consumer products. Even though animals are not humans does not mean they should be used for testing, which is so inhumane. These animals could have a different importance in society than just experimentation. What is done to animals is usually not safe, ending up with the animal injured or even dead. This experimentation however, is becoming less useful because scientists are creating new ways for testing. Animal testing is cruel and inhuman, causing too many animals to be injured or killed when safer alternatives are becoming available.
Animal testing is very harmful and dangerous for the animals. The Humane Society International is aware of the experiments being done to the animals. The Society says, “animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and “killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck breaking, decapitation, or other means” (“Should Animals”). The Society explains in detail the experimentation used to ensure consumers know how badly the animals are being treated. The animals used are also seldom given medication before procedures to reduce the pain. The US Department of Agriculture reported “in 2010, 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief” (“Should Animals”). The animals given no anesthesia are being forced to suffer and experience pain in a way that no being should ever have to. Anim...

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