Essay Summary: Animal Experimentation In The Human Society

Animal Experimentation
Maddie Austin Animals today are not only loved as pets, or living freely in the wild, but being tortured to death in labs. Animal testing has caused humans to take away many animals freedom of life. Animal experimentation is the procedures, testing, and research done on living animals.(Human Society) This is done to see the results,effects, and outcomes a product. For example, experimentation effects of medicinal products or cosmetics. Companies do this to know if what they are testing is safe for humans. But, while doing so, they are killing, torturing, and hurting many animals. Animal experimentation is and has been a very controversial topic, but morally wrong.Animals have feelings, emotions, and ability to feel
Some examples include lots of different types of animals used in animal testing such as mice, fish, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and farm animals. Also, birds, cats, dogs, mini-pigs, and monkeys or chimps. Animals are tested on in many ways. “A few common procedures are forced chemical exposure in toxicity testing, which can include oral force-feeding, forced inhalation, skin or injection into the abdomen, muscle, etc. Exposure to drugs, chemicals or infectious disease at levels that cause illness, pain and distress, or death is another common procedure.” (Human Society). These procedures are not just wrong, but prove the cruelty of them. There are multiple types of testing strategies and surgeries tested on animals. Examples are prolonged periods of physical restraint, food and water deprivation, surgical procedures followed by recovery, infliction of wounds, burns and other injuries to study healing and infliction of pain to study its physiology and treatment. Lastly, there are Behavioural experiments designed to cause distress, e.g., electric shock or forced swimming, Other manipulations to create “animal models” of human diseases ranging from cancer to stroke to depression and killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means. This proves the destruction and abuse animal testing
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