Ethical Effects Of Animal Testing
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As quoted by Arthur Schopenhauer, “Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” Animal testing is a topic of major interest and majorly problematic throughout the United States today. Animal testing is generally for a good cause, however the way the procedure is handled is completely wrong and unacceptable. For example, if dogs are a man’s best friend, why are 75,000 dogs tortured every year in the United States and given worms inside their bodies that will most definitely kill them, to be used for research? Even over 125,000 primates are shot for research alone in America every year and numbered off like victims of the Holocaust. Without a solution to regulate the severity of animal testing, America’s beloved pets could turn against human compassion and live long painful lives of fear and neglection. Being a pet owner like myself it is easy to feel the pain these animals go through, unaware of when it could be their turn to be brutally killed for scientific research. Just imagine if it was your cat, or dog, or horse, or whatever type of animal you may have, how would you feel, how would they feel? Ladies and gentleman, that is the question that needs to be asked when considering if the project is worth the detrimental effects it has on these poor animals, who do nothing but love their human “superiors.” The three topics I will be discussing today is the unnecessary cruelty involved in animal testing, how to regulate the process of animal testing to make it less inhumane, and the benefits of the solution and possible consequences that will occur if the solution is not implemented.
Animals become depressed and afraid as scientific researchers test them. These tests conducted on the animals are not even always releva...
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...ruel testing. You cannot act like you do not care, imagine if it was your favorite animal in that laboratory. Take a stand and begin making a change today.
As you begin to take a stand in animal cruelty and defend the animals of the world, remember the unnecessary cruelty involved in animal testing, how to regulate the process of animal testing to make it less inhumane, and the benefits of the solution and possible consequences that will occur if the solution is not implemented. Humans cannot achieve the high value of morality if we do not view every creature equally and treat all creatures with compassion. With that being said I urge you to consider your personal beliefs, your pets, your family, how would you feel if these tests were being run on them? Answering that question I hope and I know you will begin to make a change and help save the animals of America.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that animal testing is a topic of major interest and majorly problematic throughout the united states today.
- Explains that animals are force-fed experimental chemicals that sicken and kill them, while soldiers chop off lamb legs with axes without even providing the lamb with painkillers.
- Opines that animal testing is a major issue as it drifts away from basic principles of advancement into cruel and unusual punishment that can be avoided.
- Suggests ways to end animal testing cruelty, such as asking the food and drug administration to accept superior non-animal methods.
- Opines that if these problems aren't addressed, animal cruelty will expand and america's most innocent creatures will have to pay the price.
- Urges teachers to use alternative methods to dissect animals, use animals that died at their own will not from cruel testing, and make a change today.
- Urges people to take a stand in animal cruelty and defend the animals of the world.
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- Explains alistair currie is policy adviser for people for the ethical treatment of animals (peta).
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that the animal welfare act (awa) provides limitations on which animals institutions and scientists can use. since 1850, the awa protected about 1,134,693 animals but left about 25 million other animals to be scientifically and commercially used.
- Explains that rabbits are protected by the awa, but cosmetic companies use them for the "draize eye test" to determine how irritating their beauty and health care products are to the human eye.
- Opines that animal testing is not cruel and inhumane and has successfully contributed to life-saving cures and treatments. to receive any money towards institutions and testing, they must go by the policies placed on behalf of the humane care and use of laboratory animals.
- Argues that animals and humans aren't 100% similar. chimpanzees' dna is 99% similar and rats are 98% similar, but cures that may work on rats may make a disease worse when used on humans.
- Explains that there are now ways of testing that don't involve the use of animals, such as vitro glass, artificial skin, and micro-fluid chips.
- Explains that testing on animals is harmful and expensive. the us national institutes of health has an annual budget just on animal testing.
- Explains that animal testing is cruel, inhumane, and costly, but there is a religious belief behind it. many religions believe that the animals among us are sacred and no harm should come among them.
- Analyzes how animal testers responded to the religious claim that killing animals for food is unrighteous towards those species. they also use the bible, quoting genesis 1:26.
- Argues that the religious fight regarding animal testing, and the awa act, doesn't make the way scientists treat the animals humane or fair towards them.
- Explains that genesis 1:26, god said, "let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in
- Quotes knight, andrew, jane goodall, charles darwin, and mark twain. "animal testing - procon.org."
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In this essay, the author
- Opines that animal testing is barbaric and unreliable, and there are newer ways to test products that do not involve slaughtering animals.
- Explains that lab animals are treated as disposable objects instead of living beings, subjected to painful experiments and offered no pain relief, except death. killing them for such trivial reasons is morally no different from murder.
- Explains that animal testing accurately demonstrates how any given substance will react in a human, but there have been many tests where different species have different reactions to the same chemical.
- Argues that there is no other way to safely test chemicals and drugs other than animal testing. there have been lots of advancements in non-animal testing in the past few years.
- Argues that animal testing is an outdated and atrocity practice. there are no conclusive results that testing animals even save human lives. people need to be more conscious of not purchasing products that are tested on animals.
- Cites peta media center's "alternatives: testing without torture." caat-against animal testing.
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