In skin and eye irritation test, rabbits are forced either to have a chemicals rubbed on a shaved area of skin or drops of chemicals put in there eyes. With their eyes held open by clips for days, they test to see how they will react to shampoo or any kind of hair product. In “lethal dose” tests, animals are forced to inhale massive loads of chemicals to see how much can be given before death. This will kill 50% of the animals used in the experiment. These animals are given no form of a pain reliever and are forced to suffer. Why would you do this to any living being? Thousands of animals are killed yearly because of this. Animals hurt too, why do we need to test on them? A helpless rabbit or mouse is suffering. No one wants to suffer, …show more content…
The AWA (Animal Welfare Act) doesn't protect rats or mice, they are the most commonly used animals. If the animals aren't protected this can lead to the mistreatment of them. The Animal Welfare act also doesn't prevent cases of terrible abuse during in the labs. In 2009 there were 338 violations of the Animal Welfare Acts at just one research center in …show more content…
It is wasting the governmental researchers dollars. The national of Institute Health uses $14 billion of its $31 billion dollars on animal research and testing.
Most of the experiments are flawed, wasting the lives of the animals. Why would you kill or injure an animal for no reason? 87% of studies don't randomize the selection of animals to prevent researcher bias. Most animals are killed during or after the testing of products on them so why is it necessary if it is flawed?
Since we've talked about how bad it is what are other options? Vitro or cell cultures can be tested and will harm not a thing. No, vitro , is not stem cell research, a virto is created from other chemical and it mimics the abilities of a human cell. Artificial human skin will have the same reaction to chemicals as human skin would have. Microfluidic chips that recreate the functions of a human organ can be used but are still in development stages. The best option is computer models that can predict the toxicity of the chemicals without harming
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.
There is a moral blind spot in the treatment of animals that enable us to justify the cruelties for the perceived benefits of humans. Animals are living things. They have lungs which breathe, hearts which beat, and blood that flows. In fact, animals sense of smell, sight, and sound is much more acute than our own. Therefore, we can assume that their sensitivity to pain is at least equal to ours. According to Hippocrates, “The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.” This can go with the Duty Theory that states that every individual gets treated the same. The intentions of animal testing is not to harm the animals, but that is exactly what it does.
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.
Animal welfare is a term that came into use after the federal Animal Welfare Act passed in 1966. The term is used by research compliance inspectors employed by the government, by those who work in shelters, and by veterinarians and scientists employed by companies, hospitals, and universities that perform animal research, all of whom are charged with ensuring that detailed regulations are followed when using animals in research. People who promote animal welfare believe in the controlled use of animals in research under the strict guidelines of the Animal Welfare Act and its numerous amendments. Proactive animal welfare advocates also adopt the same high standards for the use of rats, mice, and birds in research, which are not presently included in the Animal Welfare Act as currently amended.
Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, the U.S Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (AWA) (Public law 89-544) brought the welfare of stolen animals used for laboratory experiments to the forefront. It authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate the transport, sale, and handling of dogs, cats, non-human primates, and other small animals such as rabbits, hamsters, and guinea pigs held by animal dealers and laboratories for research purposes. It also required dog and cat dealers to be licensed and provide identifications for their animals; however, there were several gaping holes in this law. Only the laboratories receiving funding for animal experimentation had to be registered with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Only the animals that were being purchased or sold across state lines had to be registered and the USDA had limited authority in that they could only regulate what happened to the animals pre-research.
According to the Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force-feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation and the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies. Additionally, in 2010 the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that 97, 123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being refused any anesthesia for relief. (“Should Animals be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?”) No animals deserve to be treated with this kind of cruelty in a sad attempt to benefit human health. Prior to testing, it is a known fact that the animals may never survive or live past the testing. This is because the drugs they use on the animals may be very lethal, some even causing instant death upon exposure. Consequently, animal testing should not continue because the lives of many innocent animals are unnecessarily taken away due to the
Animals are subjected to tests that are often painful or cause permanent damage or death, and they are never given the option of not participating in the experiment.... ... middle of paper ... ... Humans cannot justify making life better for themselves by randomly torturing and executing thousands of animals per year to perform laboratory experiments or to test products. Animals should be treated with respect and dignity, and this right to decent treatment is not upheld when animals are exploited for selfish human gain.
Picture yourself in a testing laboratory; needles, drugs, and knives pointed in your direction with you having no idea what’s going on around you, this is how animals everyday are treated, we have to stop this now! Millions of animals are killed in laboratories everyday with no chance to object to what the testers are about to do to them. Animals feel as much pain as humans do so why does it make it okay to test on them when they are so alike to humans? Every day people test makeup, shampoos, and medicines on animals, the strange thing is that animals have different skin, hair, and internal organs than humans have. Since the animals have different internal organs than humans only 5-25% of the testing results are agreeable between animals and humans.
There are laws to protect animals, it is called the Animal Welfare Act. Under the Animal Welfare Act, it states that in laboratories animals can be burned, poisoned, starved, restricted, shocked, brain damaged and even addicted to drugs (“Bad Science”). During these experiments pain relievers are not enforced, even during the most painful experiments, and usually are not ever used. About ninety-nine percent of animals used in experiments are not included in the Act; like birds, mice, rats and any cold-blooded animals, which means that the laboratories can do whatever they want to the innocent animals. No matter how painful these experiments are, it is still legal by law (Do Something). Experiments do not even have to keep track of most of the animals that they kill
Essentially we are torturing the animals for a negative outcome, both for the human and the animal. The Food and Drug Administration reports that “92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans” (“Top Five Reasons”). If the products and drugs that we are testing on the animals are not working then there is no use in harming a harmless animal. Some may disagree and say that animal testing has enabled us to develop many life-saving treatments for both humans and animals. But in reality, there are more cons than pros in animal testing.
Animal testing is an act of barbarism, the fact that animals are being bred to be a victim of crude experiments and then euthanized is cruel. An Eye Irritancy Test is a test in which albino rabbits have a substance entered into their eyes that are held open with clips for seven to eighteen days. The rabbits are confined in stocks with only their heads protruding while experimenters record the damage of the eye tissue which can vary to being swollen eyelids, inflamed irises, ulceration, bleeding, massive deterioration, and blindness. Many rabbits break their necks as they struggle to escape from the pain. Another savage test is an Acute Toxicity Test, also known as lethal doses, or poisoning tests. This test determines the amount of a substance that will kill a percentage of a group of test animals. Substances are forced into the animal’s body by tubes to the stomach, cuts to the throat, introduced to the eyes, mixed into food or inhaled through a gas mask. Reactions to this test can include convulsions, heavy breathing, diarrhea, constipation, emaciation, contortion, skin eruptions, and bleeding. The testing period continues until at least half of the animals die, approximately two to four weeks. Keep in mind, anesthesia is absent during these procedures.
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.
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.
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,
In addition, people consider that animals are suffering in the experiments. But according to the author Harish (2011), 44% of animals were used in experiments, which involve pain. What’s more, most animals are getting pain relief drugs in the experiments. That can make animals not feel pain. So, the medical animal testing should be done.