Do you ever think about how the products we use are tested to know they are safe? Everything from soap and cleaner to bandaids and kleenex has to be tested before the use on humans. The way that people decided to handle this issue, is to use animals. Animal testing is a real problem. Many animals are getting severely injured testing products for humans to use. I personally believe that animal testing should be banned. There are many alternatives to testing products that don’t require animals. Innocent animals should not be used as our ‘guinea pigs’.
Many countries around the world have banned animal testing. “The United States is one of only two countries in the world whose government openly permits it.” (ALDF). Most of the products we use
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They would have chemicals forced down their throats and dripped into their eyes and onto their shaved skin. For cosmetic testing they would normally use a skin or eye irritation test. Another test that they use repeated oral force feeding. Studies using this method can last weeks or months. When using this method they would force animals to swallow what every they are testing whether it is soap, cleaner, etc. They use this test to look for signs of general illness or specific health hazards, such as cancer or birth defects. Another test that is used is called lethal dose. During this test animals are forced to swallow massive amounts of a test chemical to determine the what dosage would cause death. When people think about animal testing, they don’t think about the lasting effects on the animals. Animals that have been tested on can experience pain and distress including blindness, swollen eyes, sore bleeding skin, internal bleeding, organ damage, birth defects, convulsions, and death. After animals are tested on, the animals are killed, normally by asphyxiation, neck-breaking or …show more content…
In 1966, they tried to control the problem by passing the Animal Welfare Act. This enacted standards to govern the humane handling, care, treatment and transportation of animals by dealers, research facilities and exhibitors. The AWA protects rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, chimps and monkeys, but excludes mice, rats, birds, cold-blooded animals or animals farmed for food like cows, pigs, chickens, which make up almost 90 percent of all animals used for cosmetic tests. If many other countries can ban animal testing the United States can too. The U.S. is one of the most powerful countries in the world. Animal testing should also be banned because it creates unreliable results. No matter how many tests they perform on animals, someone will always have to be the first human if is tested on. The fact that animal testing is so unreliable, makes human trials just as risky. “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous. The small amount of drugs that are approved for human use, end up being relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in tests on animals.”
Is animal testing really worth taking away animal’s valuable lives? No, I think it’s wrong, inhumane, and cruel. Animals have feelings like humans do and they should be treated with respect even though they are just animals.When animals are tested over time they live in cruel and harsh conditions. They are tied up and changed to their cages or devices they are being tested on. Almost all tests fail in humans and it is not worth sacrificing an animals life.Think about all the things animals have to go through all the harsh and cruel treatment.They are put in conditions where they are not allowed to eat or drink and move around. Is it really worth killing an animals for eyeliner that will never hit the market or for drugs that all fail in humans. So here are some of the reasons I think we should ban all animal testing.
Animals should not be used as test subjects for any research. The innocent and helpless animals’ rights are being violated when they are involved during animal experimentation. These unfortunate animals do not have a choice whether or not they want to be involved in testing. They are not intended for people to experiment on for their own selfish reasons. It is not right to take advantage of the animals because they are helpless and cannot protect themselves. Animals and humans have similarities; they both behave, feel, think, and experience pain. Therefore, animals should be treated with the same respect as humans. The pain and suffering an animal is forced to endure is not worth any new product. It is cruel and inhumane to take advantage of an innocent animal. These tests that use animals to ensure the safety of products are extremely common without people even knowing about it. It is not fair to these animals to abuse their beauty. They are helpless and cannot control what is happening to them. Animal experimentation should be stopped because it violates the rights of animals and harms or even kills the animals.
Approximately two to four million animals have been used in safety tests. Safety tests are conducted with a wide range of chemicals and products, including drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, household cleaners, and packing materials. This raises issues such as the ethics and humaneness of deliberately poisoning animals, thus harming them, for the sake of marketing a new cosmetic or household product.
While animal testing has led to many life-saving cures, animal testing is cruel and inhumane because it involves inflicting pain and harm on the test subject to study its effects and remedies. Testing involves physically restraining; force-feeding; and depriving animals of food and water. They are forcibly given toxic substances and pain relief is never an option. Killing the animals at the end of the testing is common practice since the animals are no longer useful. In one example, rabbits acted as test subjects to test the eye irritation of certain shampoos. The bunnies were restrained; their eyelids forced open with clips for days and the shampoos were applied. Some of the test subjects
Sadly according to the Humane Society International (HSI) article About Animal Testing “in the United states alone around 26 million animals are tested each year for medical and commercial research” (HSI) even though animal testing is not required to ensure that the cosmetic being sold are safe. From those 26 million animals being tested most are not protected by the federal Animal Welfare Act. The animal welfare act does not include birds, rats and mice bred for research, and it doesn’t include cold-blooded animals. Animals testing should be banned because the animals tested suffer immensely, also animal tested is unethical, and because there are many alternatives.
companies must not be able to test on animals without knowing that the product will be successful. Scientists and researchers use animals to test human products on. Animal testing is harmful and ineffective for humans.
Testing on the animals is conducted inside universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, farms, defense establishments and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to industry. Some of the tests that researchers do on the animals are biomedical research, transplantation, drug testing and toxicology testing, cosmetics and other animal testing that are used for directional research, breeding and defense research. Organizations like PETA and BUVA think it is not a necessity for this testing. They think it is cruel, poor scientific practice, poorly regulated and that animals used for experimentation have an intrinsic right not to be used for experimentation. Many Americans don’t agree with testing on animals.
Today, millions of animals are being tested for the use of human products, causing them to fall ill and die, leaving them no choice but to be experimented on. Animal abuse can be more than what meets the eye. Specifically, animal testing is a form of animal abuse and usually ends in the death of a harmless animal. Some might say that there is no other way to test products, but due to the harm that is done and our advancements in science, animal testing should not be tolerated. Our advancements in science have enabled us to create other things that we can test on, instead of harming innocent animals.
According to the article” Save the Animals: Stop Animal Testing,” animals’ rights are violated when the sciences are doing the research and there are many similar ways between humans and animals, such as how they feel and behave. Even though animals cannot express their opinions, they still feel, think, and experience pain. When the sciences use animals to do the research, humans still need to respect them because of animals’ rights. Animals have their opinions they cannot explain and humans have a duty to protect animals’ rights. Animal testing should be banned because humans need to respect their minds.
middle of paper ... ... In conclusion animal tests for the same products but different companies putting more than one animal at risk, these tests can be stopped if the government stops allowing large companies to put these animals at risk simple household products these animals are living beings with feelings and emotions and deserve to live a long and happy life like any human being. Animal Cruelty Prevention Act tries to stop animal cruelty and experiments but the commercial companies tend to get away with it because they find loopholes and they are very wealthy. They also save millions of dollars by experimenting on animals and not using the slightly costlier alternatives such as cell cultures, corneal and skin tissue cultures, corneas from eye banks, and computer and mathematical models.
All over the world, people continue to conduct tests on animals. Due to the minimum standards given, there is very little regulation
The Animal Welfare act was created in 1996 and it 's main purpose was to establish a licensing system for animal dealers and laboratories that use dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, or non-human primates. This was also done in Great Britain in the 1960 's which was used to calm the debate of using animals in science. This act is the only federal law in the United States that is regulating the treatment of animals in research. Some say that this isn 't enough to protect the animals in testing labs. David Favre states that, "This is a federal law of limited purpose and scope." He goes on to say that, it does not deal with all species of animals, as do most state anti-cruelty laws. Instead, the law focuses upon several very specific activities that have been shown in the past to be potential areas of animal abuse and that have a nationwide aspect to them (Favre,
Should animal testing be banned? Now, animal testing is still a controversial subject, and the scientists are facing an increasing problem, with more and more people appealing to stop animal testing. The original purpose of animal testing was to invent drugs for human diseases. For example, Scutti (2013) states that 98 of Nobel Prizes awarded for Physiology or Medicine, 75 were directly dependent on research from animals. The four non-animal experiment prize winners also relied on the data, which were obtained from other animal research groups.
Every year, thousands of animals are tormented, and then die during the animal experiments. Another fact is from Vivisection Information Network, there is a rough estimate from the European Union that 10.5 million vertebrate animals were used in animal experiments, which is 28,800 per day or one every three seconds. Around 18.5 million animals were used in the USA per year (Updated). Also, there are still a large amount of animals that have not been registered. Even though there are disadvantages and disagreement in using of animal experiment, there is also some evidences show that animal experiment is inevitable for the future progress, and the human beings would not have greater life quality without animal testing.
First of all, animal testing should be banned in order to protect the rights of animals. In other words, animals’ rights are infringed by experimenting on them. Animals and humans are similar in many ways. To begin with, they have similar levels of biological complexity. They both are aware that they exist and they both make conscious choices. Philosophy professor at North Carolina State University Tom Regan points out "Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment. This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment." (F. B. Orlans) Experimentation on an animal ...