Animal Testing Are you allowing yourself to ignore the unnecessary, unethical, and inaccurate experiments and tests that are being done to innocent animals every single day? Scientists, doctors, and other experimenters do physical and mental tests on animals in search of answers. Over time the horrible practices that were, and still are, happening to these animals on a daily bases were slowly opened to the public and it seems like no one wanted to believe it. Slowly these ways are being stopped but there are still labs testing these animals with no sympathy. Animal testing is unnecessary, unethical, and inaccurate because humans are totally different than animals, there are other possible ways to find answers, and the experiments done on …show more content…
Everything around us is continually growing and improving, why can’t our ways of finding answers with experiments change also? Anything is possible and when there is a possibility for animals to no longer suffer for no reason, everyone should be all about it and ready to change! It is more than possible to switch the test’s base from a guinea pig or bunny to a more cell-based experiment, no longer having to use animals (Zerhouni). In Fact, the author even stated, “We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans.” -Dr Elias Zerhouni. Using this way can even be cheaper, easier, and more helpful which some open minded scientists have found (PETA). If we open our eyes it is possible to start searching for new ways and we can make our testing non-animal based. By doing this we would get the same answers just a different way …show more content…
Of the 26 million animals used, 95% of those animals are small rodents, birds, and fish (Listland). Not many higher mammals are used, making this okay in their eyes. Their biggest support for how they feel on this topic are facts that make animal testing look ethical and not as bad, just how the following fact states. “The human population of the United States eats about 9 billion chickens each year or more than 340 chickens for each animal used in research.” (listland). This quote shows not many of our animals are being tested on even though 26 million may seem like a large number. In reality, though, we are eating more than we are testing on and the little ones we are testing on won’t make any difference any way, they can reproduce just fine. Many people have argued over this fact, but a question always pops up and never seems to be solved. Why is it okay for even the little number of animals to be tested on? The small animals such as birds, fish, and mice have a right to live their lives and just because they’re small it doesn’t lessen their importance or tell whether it is okay for them to be tested
First, animal testing is very harmful to animals. 100 million animals are harmed or killed because of testing. For example, the poor animals are given painful tests until they are not needed any more or eventually die. Just because they don't test things on humans, doesn’t mean that they should be doing it to animals. Animals testing is harmful to innocent animals.
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Regardless of the devastating facts behind animal testing, supporters of using laboratory animals argue that without animal testing it would be hard for researchers to guarantee that drugs and medical procedures are safe for use on humans (“Update: Animal Testing”). They are ignoring the animals’ well-being. If scientists were dissecting live humans, people would be disgusted and call that murder. Animals and people may look different, but we are both living things. Animals are just unable to speak for themselves, so scientists choose to treat them like inanimate objects, as if their
Somewhere, in the United States, an animal is in terror. It cowers fearfully as scientists hold it down, and a doctor grips a massive, sharp needle next to its neck, ready to inject the animal with a lethal dose of a new, experimental drug. The animal is one of 26 million other creatures facing the same, painful, fate annually (The Hasting Center). Animal testing is the downfall of humanity, a practice of humans testing chemicals, drugs, and cosmetics on animals. Animal testing is an atrocity that is an unnecessary and dangerous ordeal to the subjects being tested on. The fact that it is cruel, is highly inaccurate, and that there are many other ways to achieve the results being pursued all
Animal testing - this issue is one of the most controversial issues discussed around the world today. Many argue that animal testing is inhumane, and that animals should no longer be used for testing. However, I strongly agree with the point that animal testing is, in fact, the best way to prove a product to be safe. In a survey done in the US, 99% of the active physicians thought that animal testing should be continued - for the present, no alternative for animal testing is accurate enough to replace it. Without animal testing, human beings themselves will become the subject of experiment. People should be aware that without any alternative in place, it would be the same as saying that human rights are less important than animal rights. Human beings desperately need animal testing for the development of cures as well as for the sake of civilisation.
1. There are many alternatives to animal testing, these methods are not only cheaper and faster but also effective in predicting human health. In some cases, animal tests are not even effective, since their biology is completely different from ours, so it doesn’t make sense to keep using them. But replacing animal experiments for these methods may take a long time to happen. 2.
Animals can be burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused as a result of testing. And the list could go on forever. The way animals are being mistreated and tested on should be against the law. There is a different ways to do research other than killing and abusing animals. There are many alternate test that scientist can use to do there research without harming animals. Alternative test are defined as test that use the three “R’s”, a test that replaces a procedure that uses animals with one that doesn’t, a test that reduces the number of animals used in a procedure, and test that refine a procedure to cause less pain to the animal.(11 Facts about…)
Imagine a small girl walking into a pet store, eyes aglow with excitement. She wanders through the aisles with a skip in her step until she comes across the cages with the rabbits. She pets each of them delicately, finally choosing the one she wants and then she takes it home, holding it and showing it love for the rest of it’s life. Now, imagine another scenario. A scientist walks towards a small cage with ten rabbits huddled in a corner. He picks one of them up, coldly holds it in hand and shoots a chemical into one of its eyes. The rabbit is then constrained, preventing it from relieving any pain, redness, or bleeding caused by the test, until the scientist decides to check the results of the test, followed
Animal testing is always a behind closed doors situation. Most people are aware that it is happening yet never give it a second thought. An estimate of more then 115 million animals all around the world, including the most common mice, rats, rabbits, and monkeys, are used in experiments every single year (“11 Facts About Animal Testing”, n.d.). And according to change.org the “USA spends $16 billion dollars annually for animal testing at tax payers' expense.” (“Sign the Petition”, n.d.)
Roughly 26 million animals every year are turned over for animal testing (Procon.org). It has been practiced for thousands of years, with the first instance of animal research dating back to around 500 BC (and even then many frowned upon it). People who are for animal testing voice that it has created life-saving treatment for humans as well as animals. Those who are against it say that it’s an inhumane and cruel form of research, and there are better, safer alternatives scientists can use to continue with their
The method of using animals for testing of human products has been a controversial issue for the last thirty years. Animal testing has been a considerably debated practice. The question is whether animal testing is morally right or wrong. Animal testing is wrong because of the other side says that animals are the closest things to humans. Testing on animals harms the animals and does not do us any good.
Throughout history, prisoners have been used in scientific and medical research. Some experimentations being very cruel. Recently scientists have turned to animals as test subjects for different types of experiments involving medicines and cures to diseases. Scientist started to realize that animals weren’t the right test subjects; and tuned to human beings. They could not help with every experiment that wanted to be tested. Animals were proven not to be reliable for safety testing and disease research. Animal experimentations fail due to the effects of the environment where the research is done and the outcomes, the great differences of animal diseases compared to human diseases, and the difference in the physiology and genetics (Karron).
For years, the French cosmetic company L’Oréal has coined the slogan, “Because you’re worth it.” However, a look behind the scenes of the cosmetic industry as a whole begs the question: is it really worth it? Over a hundred million animals ranging from mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, and dogs, are locked in laboratories across the U.S. and are subjected to chemical, food, cosmetic, and medical tests for human benefit (“Animal Testing 101”). Many of these animals are severely mistreated, and bear the pain of procedures gone wrong. On the flip side, products and medicines have been made safer and more reliable due to the positive contributions of laboratory tests. The issue has sparked over the last several years, leading many people to
Other people believe that animal testing is good. We don’t want to use animals, but we don’t have any other options. According to the article by Noah Berlatsky, “Today, one can even become a board-certified surgeon without harming any animals.” So we don’t have any other options for animals testing. If we didn’t use animals, we’d have to test new drugs on people. Noah Berlatsky also says that, “Animal experiments don't persist because they are the best science, they persist because of experimenters' personal biases and archaic
This article sums up the fact that we should move away from, but not completely get rid of animal testing. Since about the 1950’s until 2013 the public support of animal testing has dropped about 33%. That number is expected to continually drop with younger generations, not just because of compassion and ethics, but because of the scientific community striving for improvement. One of the main problems with animal testing is that while humans and other animals may be similar, they are not the same. Because of this, side effects are missed, money is wasted, and still, there is only an 8% chance of a new chemical entity being approved for humans. Even with such a small percentage, animal testing is still required. To break away from animal testing