Animal testing is a phrase that most people have heard but perhaps still unsure of what exactly is involved. Laboratories test cosmetic products and medications on animals to understand how the human body works. Rabbits, guinea pigs, and hamsters are used for laboratory experiments, which they all suffer during each medical procedure. Those who support animal testing may define it as an experiment that uses animals to benefit humans, where it saves lives and provides vital medical treatment. Regardless, animals deserve to live a life without being tortured. What makes animals the right “subject” for testing? Experimenting on animals is cruel, laboratories perform unnecessary tests, alternative testing methods now exist that replace the needs …show more content…
In the 1700s an English philosopher Jeremy Bentham wrote, “The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?” Animals can suffer like humans do, they can feel pain. Companies use laboratories to test their products, which can be dangerous and cause serve pain on animals. Cosmetic companies use their products on animals to evaluate irritation caused by shampoo and other products. The products can damage their skin, hearing, and sight. Cosmetic companies use clips to keep the rabbits’ eyelids open for several days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested. Many experiments utilize restraining devices to prevent an animal from moving. Some experiments are designed to hold an animal in partial or total immobilization for months. Animals in labs suffer not only pain from experiments, but also suffers serve stress from the laboratory life. They spend their lives in small cages where they are unable to move and make choices also surrounded with bright lights and loud noises. “In 2009, an undercover lab investigation revealed monkeys frantically spinning around and around in their cages, biting open wounds, mutilating themselves, and ripping out their own hair, all because of the chronic psychological distress they must endure” (neavs). This is not a life a living being should have to go through. People think animals don’t suffer, and that is scientifically necessary. In fact, they do suffer and …show more content…
One of the alternative methods is called vitro testing, it allows researchers to use human cells and study the cell structure in a petri dish. It can produce more relevant results than animal testing. Using technology is another way to avoid animal testing. It has advanced over the years, instead of experimenting on live animals, researchers may able to use existing data to create very accurate simulation that can be run repeatedly. Physical simulations such as artificial tissues and organs has rapidly improved and it will allow scientists to conduct hands-on experiments without animals. A biotechnology company called Empiriko invented synthetic livers which can predict the liver’s metabolic reactions to drugs. The company discovered that this invention is quicker, cheaper, and more accurate than animal testing. Not only it saves money and time, it saves more lives. For example, one trial provided accurate information which would have required testing on 1,000 rats and 100 dogs. It is a shame that we must allow so many animals to go through so much pain and stress when the test can be down in one trial. Another reason why companies should invest in the alternative testing methods is the cost of animal testing. Traditional testing and toxicity studies on animals that require the use of hundreds of laboratory animals, which make these studies
Over 100 Million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in testing labs every year. Animals are used to test the safety of products, advance scientific research, and develop models to study disease and to develop new medical treatments, all for the sake of mankind. Animals should not be used for scientific research because animal testing is inhumane, other testing methods now exist, and animals are very different from human beings. 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.
Nowadays, with the modern technology, it would be really easy to find alternative procedures to find a cure for a certain disease or to test if a certain cosmetic product is safe. Also, it would be easier to find an alternative way to test beauty products instead of making animals blind. Even though it is a fact that experimenting with the help of the advanced technology with no animals involved is cheaper than torturing animals, animal testing is still on-going. This is one of the many reasons why animal testing should be banned and scientists should intensively search for alternatives where no living being will be harmed or killed.
The issue of animal testing has become an important topic of debate because despite the cruel and inhumane treatment of laboratory animals, people who support animal testing claim that the research benefits are phenomenal and surely outweigh the animals’ pain and suffering. I feel as though the question of whether or not animal testing is immoral is an easy answer. Animal testing on any species is unethical and should be abolished as soon as possible because it is a form of animal cruelty, provides inaccurate results, and there are better alternatives that can be pursued.
...e outrageously painful and sometimes deadly to the animals. How on earth is that humane? Some animals even end up having permanent disabilities from all the chemical testing. The findings and conclusions from animal testing rarely work the same way on humans and an enormous amount of money is spent on failed attempts. The rate of success of transferring test results to humans is too low to justify the expense. Taxpayers would be wise to invest this money in alternative methods such as technological advancements. While it may not be possible to completely diminish animal testing, significant reductions need to be made in order to advance the state of technology and improve overall results. Advancements in medicine must be made without perpetuating needless suffering to helpless creatures. Testing needs to stop; animals don’t deserve any of this painful punishment.
They fear that without these test subjects, humans will have no insight to what a chemical may do to them before using it. These fears though, would not be worsened by the elimination of animal testing; according to The Food and Drug Administration, about ninety-two out of a hundred drugs tested on animals, do not have the same reaction in humans. This number makes it clear that animal testing is far more destructive than it is effective. Recently, scientists have been more successful in growing cells of human body parts that can be used as a much better candidates for testing. Testing on an actual human organ rather than one that possesses some similarities clearly has a better success rate. Some of the areas these lab grown cells have majorly helped in include cancers, sepsis, kidney diseases, and AIDS. These new developments provide a logical reason to end animal testing altogether, but, many other factors also push for the end of this
Animal testing is an intense contentious matter that has created a division among people; there are those who support and those who are against it. Animal testing, also identified as animal experimentation is when non-human animals are used in conducting experiments, especially in medicine. There are a number of unending debates on whether animal testing should continue or not, as some groups squabble that, it is an unethical process while others argue that it is ethical since it has large benefits on the health of humans. In addition, there is another group that advocates for the use of alternatives, instead of live animals. Although animal testing is considered as an inhumane and an unethical practice, it is crucial
The term animal testing refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research. The testing is used to research basic biology and diseases, to evaluate the efficiency of new medicinal products, and test the human health and environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, household cleaners, food additives, pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals. All procedures, even those classified as “mild,” have the potential to cause the animals physical as well as psychological distress and suffering. Often the procedures can cause a great deal of suffering. Most animals are killed at the end of an experiment, but some may be reused in subsequent experiments (Humane Society, 2016). Animal testing is by no
Safer alternatives are out there, and they are becoming more accurate as technology improves. Let’s face it, this is the 21st century. As technology keeps advancing, animal testing just seems pointless in our modern world. Scientists have developed effective, non-animal research methods that are cheaper, faster, and more accurate than animal tests. This includes vitro and micro dosing testing as well as computer models. Vitro testing, such as studying cell cultures in a petri dish, can produce more precise results than animal testing because human cells can be used. Micro dosing, the administering of doses too small to cause adverse reactions, can be used in human volunteers whose blood is then analyzed. Computer models, such as virtual reconstructions of human molecular structures, can predict the toxicity of substances without invasive experiments on animals. Out of all the hundreds of techniques available, cell culture toxicology methods give accuracy rates of 80-85 percent. All these new forms of testing are the way of the future. It’s time to let animals be free instead of living these in barbaric conditions of science
...f the product is given to a human through the skin. It is said that this could be a new and very effective alternative to Animal Experiments. Scientist have grown a small piece of human liver tissue from stem cells which might one may be possible to perform initial ‘human’ safety trails in a lab. I suppose that if the laws on the necessity for animal testing were relaxed, it would encourage the scientist to develop other methods of testing toxicity that were equally effective. There are alternatives, it is just whether or not the scientist will peruse them.
Animal testing has been used for developing and researching cures for medical conditions. For example, the polio vaccine, chemotherapy for cancer, insulin treatment for diabetes, organ transplants and blood transfusions are just some of the important advances that have come from research on animals (“Animal Testing”). Consuming animals for research benefits in developing various treatments and also benefits in discovery better methods for cures. According to the article “Animal Testing”, it says that the underlying rationale for the use of animal testing is that living organisms provide interactive, dynamic systems that scientists can observe and manipulate in order to understand normal and pathological functioning as well as the effectiveness of medical interventions. It relies on the physiological and anatomical similarities between humans and other animals (MacClellan, Joel). Meaning that animals have the same body components and features as humans and is the best thing to research on to better understand the human development. Even though several argue that animal testing is harming the animals, one has to think back to all the benefits that has come from it. There may be a little remorse for endangering animal lives, but realizing how far medicine has come makes it worth the while.
Testing animals is wrong and they are just poor helpless animals and they die every day. They are testing animals with products such as soap, household cleaners, drugs, cosmetics, pesticides and other chemicals. Drug tests that are done on animals that pass the test end up harming or killing humans. Lists of animals that get tested daily are cats, dogs, monkeys, mice, and rabbits. The researchers tested these animals with cleaners to see how it would affect them....
In addition, animals get placed in a cage and are being put in tremendous amount of harm. Animals being used for research get badly mistreated and suffer from what scientists do to these creatures. Scientists put these animals in so much discomfort just to be used for biomedical research and they suffer from these testings. These creatures are supposed to live in the wild not feel discomfort by scientist who bring danger to them. Scientist just put animals in danger and misery for the benefit of human health, and the scientist do not even care about what they are doing to these creatures.
Today, millions of animals are being tested on 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 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.
Have you ever wondered, what could have happened if you were the chosen one for a life changing experiment? Each year, millions of animals from all around the globe lost their innocent lives under these barbaric experimentations, many being forced to inhale toxic fumes or immobilized under hermetic confines before their deaths. Different methods of malevolent actions were often acted upon on animals throughout their biological trainings and medical experimentations. Although animal testings did provide pathways for hundreds and thousands of medical treatments, it is still often proved to be ineffective or unethical to experiment on animals for the sake of our own health. Throughout this essay, I will be walking through the various reasons of
Imagine your sweet cat locked in a cage inside a laboratory with other various animals. Millions of animals every year are locked up in labs for testing. Animals are used to test medications, cosmetics, biology lessons, and for medical training. Thousands of mice, rats, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are used for testing. Most of these animals will die in cruel testing experiments. Animal testing is tortures to the animals, an unreliable option for medication, and there are better safer options for testing.