Needless Animal Research, Testing, and Experimentation is Wrong

In this essay, the author

• Explains that penicillin is lethal to guinea pigs, deactivates the blood system of rabbits and is deadly to cats. scientists are pushing for more experiments regardless of the cost to the animal's life.
• Argues that animals suffering in experimentation labs are just and cruel to animals. it is wrong to harm an innocent animal of any wrong doing, when the animal doesn't know right from wrong
• Explains that charles fried claims physical harm as an impingement upon the body which either causes pain or impairs functioning. many animals experience pain, and sometimes death, during lab experiments.

• Explains that penicillin is lethal to guinea pigs, deactivates the blood system of rabbits and is deadly to cats. scientists are pushing for more experiments regardless of the cost to the animal's life.
• Argues that animals suffering in experimentation labs are just and cruel to animals. it is wrong to harm an innocent animal of any wrong doing, when the animal doesn't know right from wrong
• Explains that charles fried claims physical harm as an impingement upon the body which either causes pain or impairs functioning. many animals experience pain, and sometimes death, during lab experiments.
• Defines vivisection as an invasive experiment performed on an animal for the purpose of scientific research, product testing or education.
• Opines that animal experiments are wrong because of the repulsive pain of electrodes planted in chimps' brains, and the tortured raccoon's death.
• Explains that more than five billion dollars of federal tax revenue are spent annually on animal research. animals, like the rest of nature, were understood not to have any sort of value except to bring enjoyment to lives.
• Explains that scientists test products on animals to see if they are safe. many companies use tests such as the draize test and the ld-50.
• Explains that draize test is used to measure the harmfulness of chemicals found in household products and cosmetics, by observing the damage they cause to the eyes and skin of animals.
• Explains that the lethal dose 50 test kills half of the test group. the animals that didn't die are killed.
• Explains that even with testing that the animal goes through, a reliable prediction is impossible to ascertain. pain is not the only side effect of experiments; psychological effects occur too.
• Opines that there should be ways to undo experiments that do not involve animals. if animal testing were to stop overall, would the research end?
• Explains that with in vitro (test tube) technologies, scientists can do chemical assay tests, tissue culture systems, cell and organ cultures, cloned human skin cells, mathematical models, and human volunteers.
• Opines that all wild animals have the right to liberty in their natural environment, whether land, air, or water, and should be allowed to procreate. depravation of freedom is an infringement of an animals right.
• Opines that animals were on this land before humans, so they have a right to be treated equally. if scientists keep on experimenting with animals, they may go extinct.
• Explains that animal experimentation is not justified. animal rights:opposing viewpoints. leone,bruno, san diego, ca. greenhouse press.