Diana: Good afternoon Melanie. Thank you for coming to my house. I wanted to meet with you because I know you are a very well-known scientist and you work on animal testing. I am not very sure this is something moral to work on and I have always wanted to listen the point of view of a specialized scientist. I personally believe animal testing should not be allowed.
Melanie: Hello Diana! I’m glad to be here. I’m sorry I’m came in a little late. Talking about animal testing is definitely my specialty so I was very excited when I heard your invitation. Now, the first thing you need to know is animal testing has to do with improving science and the advancement of technology. That is the main reason why I work on it. I don’t believe it is something
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(Debate, n.d.) You waste a lot of money on the experiments, paying the scientists, on research and development, and even on basic needs the animal needs such as food and shelter. Imagine there can be two types of processes: a short term experiment and a long term one. The longer the process of the testing is, the more money is required to keep it running. Using these large amounts of money is really no good at all.
Melanie: Okay. I understand the economic part and I might respect that, but do you actually think it is that inhumane?
Diana: Forcing animals to harmful situations and restricting them from basic needs is completely inhumane. An animal should be able to drink, eat, and breathe just as any other creature in the Earth, including humans. If you are trying to make an animal undergo inhumane conditions, you might as well be doing it only for health purposes. But when it comes to cosmetics, it really blows my mind away how you can even consider testing animals for make-up related substances.
Melanie: Hmm. Why do you say that? I can see the makeup you are wearing right now was probably tested in an animal some time
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My desires are to improve and create new medicines so that what now seems to be a mortal disease can later on become one that has a cure. This gives me personal satisfaction. I think about this and not about what people think of me when I do my job. I don’t really think on how people see me, I just want to create new cures. I think we would both agree if I told you death is something completely unavoidable. Then what’s wrong with animals dying a little sooner in order to allow humans to live a little longer? So, what is your idea of a good life?
Diana: For me, a good life is a life lived with love. A life where the essential things are not visible and they are intangible. Material objects are not important. A life where you should transmit love rather than suffering. Mistreating animals in order to save humans life is not showing love. I can’t take this as a way of living a good life.
Melanie: Well, I like your way of seeing life and I respect it, Diana. I’m sorry, I had a really nice time but I have to catch the 6:00 p.m. bus to New York.
Diana: Oh! All right, thank you for coming anyway. I really appreciated and valued this conversation a lot. I hope you can change your mind someday and try and communicate my thoughts with your
Emma: She didn't get into Ohio State *Emma whispered*. Thank you Mrs. Adkins but I have to go
The information that animals have provided scientists over the past decades has changed society, and is still changing society for the better. Millions of lives have been saved with the use of animal testing and many more will be saved with continued research. However, there are many who dismiss this monumental achievement completely and oppose the use of animals in laboratory research. Though many find this practice to be
“Ok ok, I’m going.” I reply again I slowly drift to sleep thinking of that cute girl I saw today, I think her name is Jill…
Testing animals is used to develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medicinal drugs, check the safety of products intended for human use, and other biomedical, commercial, and healthcare roles. The earliest recordings of animal studies date back to Aristotle, who discovered the anatomical differences among animals by analyzing them (Introduction). Advocates of animal testing say that it has enabled the growth of numerous medical advancements, tests to see if new products are save for mankind, acquisition of new scientific knowledge, and because it is accurate (B). Opponents of animal testing say that it is cruel and inhumane to try out on animals, many animals die from the animal testing, it’s unethical, animals don’t have a say in it, the accuracy is in question because they are testing animals and not humans, and the toll of animal testing is high (B). Through the pros and cons of everything, it is bad to test animals because animals are very different from human beings and thus make poor test subjects and are unreliable, the cost and upkeep of it is expensive, and because there are alternatives to animal testi...
Animal testing has long played a part in the science of testing, and it still plays a very important role in the medical world. Testing on animals in order to create a cure for AIDS is one thing, but testing on animals for human vanity is another. Animal testing is used to test the safety of a product. It has kept some very unsafe substances out of the cosmetic world. However, in this day in age, animal testing is not the only way to test the safety of a product. Animal testing in cosmetics has decreased over the years. However, it is still used by many companies in America. Animal testing is not only cruel, but it is also unnecessary in today’s advanced scientific world.
In many parts of the world, animals are being used in laboratories are still suffering and dying to test cosmetics. In
Current animal testing has been a contentious subject ever since it started off 150 years back. Although a lot of people discover animal testing inhumane and egoistic, it is an important factor to boost our understanding of medication and to improve our understanding of science. Animal testing, to some, is the way to ameliorate our level of living and preserve many lives, and therefore has many benefits. On the other hand, the negatives may not be passed, and scientists are constantly trying to decrease the damage with some methods they create in the process. Even so, to the dismay of numerous animal lovers in addition to those who are endeavoring for animal rights, animal testing will not be stopped every time soon because, for now, it is the most trustworthy form of testing that includes the safety of daily products we use more carefully than any other procedure.
Throughout history, animal testing has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However, what many people forget are the great numbers of animals that have suffered serious harm during the process of animal testing. Animal testing is the use of animals in biological, medical, and psychological studies. The development and enhancement of medical research has been based on the testing of animals. There are many questions being asked if animal research is good or not or if the benefit for us is way greater the abuse of animals. Doing tests on animals can help find ways to cure diseases, but testing on them is wrong. Although we want to find cures for diseases to help many people, testing on animals not only brutally hurts them but it also denies the animals the rights they have.
The ethics behind using animals for experiments and tests has been questioned and debated for years. Many people believe that animal experimentations can be crucial towards medical breakthroughs such as the cure for cancer, HIV/AIDS or asthma. Meanwhile others argue that animals that are used to test cosmetics such as make-up and perfumes are inhuman because is not going to help improve the human race. Animals suffer through multiple types of torture such as being forced to ingest poisonous chemicals, blinded, burned, stapled, and infected with disease viruses. Even though animal experimentation may be considered inhumane to many, animal experimentation is crucial to advancements in medical research and can lead to a better quality of life; on the other hand, animal experimentation should not be used to develop cosmetics because such experimentation is cruel and unnecessary.
The Cruelty of Cosmetic Testing on Animals Each year, thousands of animals are brutally tortured in laboratories, in the name of cosmetic research. A movement to ban animal testing for cosmetic purposes has been gaining popularity, with many companies hopping on the bandwagon against this research. New alternatives have been developed to eliminate the need to test on animals. This is only a small beginning of what is necessary to end these immoral acts. Animal testing in cosmetics is useless and cruel, and can be accomplished by other methods of research to end the suffering of animals.
Dr. Simmonds, a veterinarian who specializes in the care of laboratory animals, is one of many who believe that animal testing is an ethical practice. He and many others see the testing as inevitable and say it must continue to help humans survive. “The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of longevity, the avoidance of great pain, the saving of lives, and the improvement of the quality of lives achieved through research using animals is so incalculably great…”(Cohen 27-28).
Cosmetic animal testing has been a controversial topic for decades but has recently gained more attention from the media due to oppositional organizations such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Those in favor of animal experimentation make the argument that they are taking animals’ lives to save humans’, but is it really necessary to subject animals to torturous conditions or painful experiments in the name of science? Animal experimentation needs to be abolished because it is unethical and selfish to destroy an animal 's life.
It still comes as a surprise to me that with all the technology in today’s society, we are still relying on animals for cosmetic research. Some people think that it is acceptable and even justified to test on mere animals rather than risk hurting people. So, for these kinds of people, animal testing makes perfect sense. However, in my opinion, animals are living creatures and have the right to live out their lives as nature intended rather than simply surviving in cages while being poked and prodded with whatever scientists fancy. I think it is depressing and sort of grotesque that I am using products that have been tested on animals that are even commonly bred as our pets. So, I began my research to find out what companies still test on animals, why they do so, and what other alternatives they could use in place of animal testing.
To every pet owner, how would it feel if your pet spent the rest of their life in a cage, while another living being applies different chemicals over and over again to see if it causes any reaction? This is what any mice, rabbit, frog, dogs have to deal with every day in order to provide humans with new medicine and products. Animal testing has been occurring for decades in order to help out medicine and the beauty industry. Many scientists have accepted the fact that animal testing can be an essential contribution to discovering new medicine. Unfortunately, animals are being used for experiments on a daily basis and being exploited for consumerism. Animal testing should not be allowed and there should be stricter laws against it or find other methods to do experiments.
"Thanks, but for the last time," I said, trying not to sound ungrateful. "I honestly do not need to see a therapist."