The phrase “animal testing” relates to procedures performed on living animals for research purposes into biology and diseases, analyzing the effectiveness of new products, and testing human health and the environmental safety of industry products. Every year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, cats, frogs, hamsters, monkeys, fish, birds, and guinea pigs—are killed in laboratories for medical reasons, chemical, drug, cosmetics, and food testing. In addition to the torture they receive on the daily, animals are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them and their way of living. The animals who are used in those type of experiments are treated like nothing more than laboratory equipment. There
Animal testing is sometimes used to find a cure for a disease, but being that animals are not humans, experimenting on them to find a cure for a human disease would give unreliable results. An animal’s reaction to a disease can be different from how a human would because diseases found in animals are not the same as diseases a human would encounter; animal testing would provide a reaction that would not be accurate to a human’s reaction. Dr. Richard Klausner, former National Cancer Institute director, proposed that while he and his research team have found ways to “cure mice of cancer” in the past, their results could not be translated in such a way to cure human beings (Klausner). Finding a cure for cancer in mice does not necessarily mean that there is a cure for cancer in a human being. The responses and symptoms seen in treatments for animals are not the same for a human being, which means that the responses and symptoms of the treatment of a human is different to an animal’s. This provides an understanding that, through animal testing, even if there is a cure to animals diseases, there is no treatment for a human disease due to the fact that animals and humans are just two different things. To add on, Professor of Neuroimaging at Aston University, Paul Furlong, says “it’s very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we are trying to achieve in the human
There are so many other ways in which one can get better results in finding a cure for a disease or seeing if cosmetics are safe for people to use. Alternatives for animal testing, such as in vitro, computer (in silico) modeling, microdosing, etc., do not require the use of animals and are relevant to human health. Those alternatives allow the results to be more accurate, precise, and animals would not be harmed in the process. To add on to that, some cosmetic companies are able to create products that are safe to use without having to resort to animal testing. Overall, there is no justification for animal experimentation when it can be averted, and millions of animals go through inessential pain. Completely banning animal experimentation would not affect the world in a big way, because humans can discover and produce things(?) without harming animals during the
Millions of Mice, rats, dogs, primates are used in laboratories to test products of all kinds. They are imprisoned in small cages, forced to try new products with results that may have many dreadful or/and painful effects. More than that, animals used for testing are treated badly. For instance, mice and rats are forced to inhale noxious fumes, rabbits are held down by vices and have caustic chemicals applied onto their skin and eye. Some animals develop strange reactions resulting from the loneliness they had to face when in cages; they would shrink in fear every time someone passes by them, they would rock back and forth, pull their own hair, and spin in circles (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA). In the scientific world animals...
Animals are used as a part of experimentations in order to accomplish new openings. A few individuals think that it is satisfactory, while others contend that it is not moral to sacrifice animals for science. Estimated, that fifty to one hundred million of animals are used for tests in the world. Despite the significance of experiments, the quantity of animals and purpose of research are not under any control. Animals testing should be banned under a few circumstances; we can enhance the situation by using alternative ways such as replacement, reduction, and refinement according to International Society for Applied Ethology.
Have you ever asked yourself what kind of makeup, hand soap or detergent you are using? Have you ever been worried that you could probably be supporting animal testing without even knowing it? This is one of the most horrible procedures of modern time. Animal testing cause pain and even death to the animals involved only to determine whether a certain product is safe for human use. These living beings are kept in cages for all their lives, they are traumatized by the daily torture and by the different kinds of drugs given; they are left with open wounds, blinded eyes, etc. But, is this really necessary? Is it morally and ethically justified? Every living being, not just people, owns the ability to think, to feel pain, to show affection and
Right now, millions of animals—including mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and monkeys—are locked in tight cages in laboratories waiting in fear for the next terrifying and painful lab experiment to be performed on them. (“Animals Used for Experimentation”) Such testing is used for things like biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and general cosmetic testing. (“Animal Experiments: Overview”) Animal testing should not continue in our world being that animals have rights similar to us, rights to live a life free of torture, free of being held against their will in a laboratory. Furthermore, animal testing is inhumane, it violates the lives of all animals used in such testing, it is very expensive for the inaccuracy of the results we obtain from it and it is unreliable as animals differ from humans in many ways. (“Pros and Cons of Animal Testing Facts”)
Right now, millions or animals including mice, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs and others are locked inside cold cages in laboratories across the country. More than 100 million animals each year suffer and die from chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests as well as biology lessons, medical training exercises, and curiosity-driven medical experiments at universities. Throughout history, animal testing has played an important role in harming animals for human advantages, making many animals suffer. Animal testing should be excluded because its inhumane, violates the rights of animals, and there are safer alternatives.
Beginning in ancient times, animals were experimented on out of pure curiosity, and people did not understand how different systems really worked. Today, we have an undeniable understanding of the body’s functions and metabolism, proving that this practice is becoming increasingly unreliable, expensive, and above all: cruel. For centuries, innocent animals such as rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, birds, cats, dogs, and primates have been used for man’s own selfish wants. In modernity, “an estimated 26 million animals are used and slaughtered every year due to animal research.” (“Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?”, 1). For some, animal research is the image of medical breakthroughs. For others, the mere thought brings the image of animals being locked in cages, starved, alone, and in pain. Animals’ rights are commonly ignored, and malpractice is often hidden from the public eye.Widely believed to bring medical gain, animal testing is cruel, inhumane, and costly. This practice is a flawed system that should be bypassed at all conceivable costs.
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
For many years, animal testing has been the main solution to test household products, food, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The term “animal testing” refers to the procedure performed on certain animals to determine if a certain product is safe. Most of these procedures done on the animal can cause a great amount of physical pain, and distress. Most animals die shortly after the experiment because so much pain was inflicted on their body. After the testing is done, the animals are left to suffer in cages. The different types of experiments performed on the animals are outrageous. There is even an alternative to animal testing, but scientist refuse to use it, and some people wonder if animals are even needed for medical research.
For thousands of years, animals have been used to test procedure, vaccines, and medicine to see their reaction prior to using them on humans. This allows these medicines, vaccines, and procedures to be reviewed and accepted by government before making them available to the public. Many medicines have potentially harmful side effects and testing on animals allows scientists to identify these side effects and let the consumer know prior to receiving and taking the medication. During this testing process, many animals react poorly to some medications or vaccines and doctors realize that those will not work for humans. This saves the loss of human life and sickness but what about the animals? It is estimated that 26 million animals are used to test in every year in the United States alone (ProCon). All sorts of animals are used to test from chickens to chimpanzees. Chimpanzees are often used due to the similarity of their DNA to human DNA. It is believed that humans developed from chimpanzee like animals over millions of years. Some animals experience the harmful effects of these tests and many die from them. Animals do not have the ability to consent to these types
For centuries, the use of animal experimentation in the biomedical field has been questioned ethically. Do the benefits of animals used in research outweigh the pain that the animals endure? Animal rights activists will argue that there are new alternatives that are more accurate than animal testing. Nonetheless, scientists will continue to use animals for the advancement in the medical field because there have been various cases where animals have paved the way, medically, for humans to this day. Additionally, testing on animals instead of humans puts humans out of harms way. The first Animal Cruelty Act was created in 1835 to regulate the use of animals for scientific purposes. According to Franco (2013), the “Enactment of the 1986 Animals
A common misconception with regard to animal testing is that animals are genetically similar to humans. Many animals are different than humans, so animal testing does not always benefit the lives of humans. Dr. Richard Klausner, a former National Cancer Institute director said, “we have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans” (qtd in Thompson par. 5). Animal testing does not benefit the humans if the animals used are genetically different. Illnesses and diseases that have been imitated in laboratory animals are not the same as the diseases that happen in humans naturally. “Diseases that are artificially induced in animals in a laboratory are never identical to those that occur naturally in human beings” (Thompson par. 4). It is very unlikely that animal experiment...
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.
“Over 1 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in U.S. labs” according to DoSomething.org. And although these animals may be considered protected under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) they are still able to be tortured and mistreated in labs. On top of all this, there is absolutely no guarantee that results and data collected from these procedures are accurate. Our anatomic builds are similar in ways but not at all interchangeable. Even though it has saved lives, animal experimentation should be banned because it is not a guarantee that these procedures are done pain free and humans and animals react differently to the medicines and chemicals used.
Animals have held an important spot in many of our lives. Some people look at animals as companions and others see them as a means of experimental research and medical advancement. With the interest to gain knowledge, physicians have dissected animals. The ethics of animal testing have always been questioned because humans do not want to think of animals on the same level as humans. Incapable of our thinking and unable to speak, animals do not deserve to be tested on by products and be conducted in experiments for our scientific improvement. Experimentation on animals is cruel, unfair, and does not have enough beneficial results to consider it essential.
Hundreds of millions of animals die every year from animal testing in the United States. Innocent animals are used everyday in laboratories for biology advancements, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetic testing. They are used to provide information to make better products that are safe for human use. Although animal experimentation has some benefits, the negatives outweigh the positives. Animal testing is killing off innocent beings for the possible human benefit, and with modern technology, there are alternative ways to test products that leave animals unharmed.