Pros And Cons Of Animal Cruelty

Animal cruelty is defined as the crime of inflicting pain, suffering, or death on an animal. Humans have been using animals as test subjects in their labs and research for hundreds of years. The oldest evidence of humans testing animals dates back to 500 BC Experimentation on animals wasn’t really questioned or challenged until the around the 1900s, people owned more domesticated animals themselves and an “anti-vivisection” (opposed to testing on live animals) campaign swept the nation ("Why Do Companies Test Cosmetics or Other Products on Animals?"). People became more interested in the subject of animal testing and whether it was ethical or not. One subject that numerous people felt unhappy about was the countless number of animals that

The California Biomedical Research Association stated “Nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals” ("Why Do Companies Test Cosmetics or Other Products on Animals?"). And no one can deny that amazing things have been accomplished through animal testing: vaccines, advances in cancer research, and in 1997 a human ear was grown on the back of a living mouse (“Using Animals for Testing: Pros Versus Cons”). But what good has come from testing for commercial testing for cosmetics other than a new blush? A living organism can be something that is complex and difficult to recreate. Without a living subject to test on there is not a real way to observe the effects of a chemical or drug in the immune system or the central nervous system. Using petri dishes in research for drug testing can be incredibly helpful but it isn’t a complete replacement for animal testing. There is no computer system or model that can simulate the complex workings of a human body flawlessly. The reasons animals are used in testing at all is because animals are the closest known natural simulation of a human ("Fact Sheet: Cosmetic