The Cons of Animal Testing
Can you imagine being locked up in a cage with no control over anything? Not even when you eat? That is how life is like for an animal in research labs. They are abused and the lab researchers don’t care. Even though there are a very few benefits to using animals for research, there are many benefits for not using them. Animal testing is costly, animals are mistreated, and there are many other safe alternatives. To begin with, animal testing is very costly and more expensive than alternate methods. The US National Institute of Health (NIH) has an animal budget of $31 billion and for animal research they spend an average of $14 - $16 billion annually. I think that all this money being used for animal testing could be used for other important
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Instead of abusing animals while testing, there are many other methods such as computer modeling, human volunteers, cell-based tests and tissue models. “A variety of cell-based tests and tissue models can be used to assess the safety of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and consumer products.” (“Alternatives to Animal Testing”). Not all tests can be reliable, such as identifying chemicals that cause birth defects or allergic reaction, but scientists are trying to develop methods (Curren). The quality and humanness of testing will improve if animals are replaced by vitro methods. These tests will often be cheaper, quicker, and more effective (“Alternatives to Animal Testing”). The study of naturally occurring disease and the health in humans is called epidemiology. The results of this study has provided researchers and health practitioners with an understanding of causes, treatments, and preventions of a range of human illnesses and no animals were mistreated as a result (“Animals in Science/Alternatives”). Animals can stop suffering and dying from these experiments if these alternatives are used more
To begin with, why is it done? Animal testing is done to protect humans from bad products that may hurt them, also to find ways to cure diseases that haven’t been cure yet. 95 percent of mice and rats are used for research. Mice represented the largest increase in research with their numbers going from 1.2 million to nearly 1.9 million in that period. Other animals also saw increases (Qtd animal experiment up to 73 percent, study says). Other animals that are used in research are rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, fish, and insects, and also less than one percent cats, and dog’s area also used for research. Another reason is to treat injuries and learn more about the animal bodies to find the similarity to the human body (qtd. animal research). Animal testing is inhumane when testing to protect humans. Some people say testing on animals are life changing experiments and with the help of animal experiment can discover blood transfusion, kidney dialysis, and gene therapy for example cystic fibrosis and types of cancer( Coster 7). Others think experimenting on animal is cruel and they suffer a lot. It is true
William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Macbeth, written in 1606, and is renowned for being Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy. The play is also known for its complex and infamous characters including the protagonist, Macbeth. It is important that Shakespeare does not allow the readers to despise the Macbeth, Shakespeare must have the readers sympathize with him instead. Shakespeare must make the reader have a sense of understanding with the protagonist, he must make them have feelings of pity and sorrow for Macbeth’s misfortunes. Shakespeare maintains the readers’ sympathy for Macbeth, by having him experience despair and adversity throughout the play.
At this moment, millions of animals know cold cages in laboratories as home, but why? Some of these animals are subjects for medical research purposes, while others are used out of pure curiosity and to test different products. Majority of these animals are used in painful experiments and are left in agony. While many of them die, a few animals survive, but these unfortunate ones wish they could be put out of their misery as well. Although scientists have resources they could use to lower the pain each animal endures and even alternatives of their test subjects, millions of innocent creatures are still suffering. The fact that animals are still used when animal experimentation is avoidable and not necessary makes animal testing unethical.
Animal testing should not be used in cosmetic industries as a source of experimentation because it is unethical and inefficient. It is a cruel way of trying to find results that are not even always trustworthy. Everyone has a different reaction to different chemicals so why even bother animals for testing? Also different species can respond differently when exposed to the same chemical so animal testing can be inefficient. The results from animal tests can be quite variable and difficult to interpret therefore it may not be applicable to human beings. Thus, consumer safety still cannot be guaranteed even after these gruesome tests which are totally unethical. It is also unethical to torture and end the lives of these animals each year for our own luxury. Everyday cosmetic industries are using defenseless animals very cruelly just to carry out some most often useless tests. Instead they should use other alternatives which has been proved to yield better and accurate results than tests involving animals.
Do you know that the lipstick that we use to make ourselves look better but blinded millions of innocent animals? Do you know that the perfume we use to make ourselves smell better but poisoned millions of innocent animals? Do you know that the medicine we had to make ourselves feel better but killed millions of innocent animals? Animal testing is the ‘ugly secret of beauty industry’ and ‘darkness portion in medical field’.
With the genetic differences among humans and animals along with all of the harm that they have suffered through, other methods of research should be used. If organizations are worried about the costs so much then animal testing
year. It’s a shame to see American Tax payer’s money go to no use. The National Institute of Health holds back 14 to 16 billion
Throughout history, animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefits. However, what many people tend to forget are the millions of animals that are tortured or killed during the process of these painful, deadly experiments. Many people seem to misunderstand animal nature and the laboratory procedures and techniques that are executed on the animals. The procedures are cruel, unreliable, and harmful. Luckily there are more humane alternatives that have also proved to be less expensive.
There is much debate over whether animal testing should be allowed or not. Some people think that it is not essential to sacrifice animals for human benefits because they are being abused and tortured severely during experiments. Some others who stand against animal testing claim that humans eliminate many lives on earth in order to safe humans’ lives, so there is no justice because even animals have the right to live on earth, yet these people do not consider the truth that animals are being used in the food industry or in the laboratories. Thus, if someone asks how many animals are being used in the laboratory experiments around the world every year, who can give an accurate answer? It can be one, ten, or fifty million. It is difficult to find the exact figure on this question because people only read news through mass media such as having a new vaccine which can help human avoid uterus cancer or a new medicine help humans cure strokes, but they also need to know how many lives of the animals would have to take in order to get theses vaccines. Therefore, some organizes think that animal testing is one of the most disturbing experiments ever, and it should be banned. Despite many controversies with opposing opinions, a compromise can be made in order to reduce the use of animals in the laboratory experiments.
Imagine just waking up one day being stripped of your home, children, food and everything you own. You’re in the dark and all of a sudden these bright, intense, fluorescent lights flick on. A very large, unfamiliar looking menacing figure approaches you and prods you with needles and all sorts of drugs. Your barely fed and you're stuck here for the rest of your life. Now what if I told you that already happens today in the year 2017. These “people” i'm talking about are poor defenseless animals that have to go through these horrible conditions every day just for an experiment that might not even work. All animal testing should be banned, even if such testings would save human lives because, the process is painful, you’re endangering a species and haven't all cruel despicable nations tested on not only humans but also animals.
Animal testing has become a wide contribution in medical field in order to find new treatment, developing new medicines and improving the existing ones as well as testing the safety and effectiveness of new medicines. Some medicines development is depending on animal research, for instances, vaccines and insulin for diabetes and kidney transplants. However, there are many diseases that their cures are still undiscovered yet and one of them is AIDS (Tanir, 2012). Frankie L. Trull once said in his article of Animal Test Research Has Saved Many Human Lives, “[…] fight against cancer has seen 24 significant biomedical advances in the past 30 years. None of them could have occurred without animal research.” Therefore, this
Here it comes.... The beast! The monster!!, my best friend, Jake the dog. Animals have always helped us humans in many ways, Hunting, killing, assisting, tracking even be a test subject. Animals should not be tested on. We do not need animals to be tested on we have better ways for testing cures and medicines. Animal testing could be replaced with Modern Medical Technology that we have now, not to mention Not everything works on us humans unlike animals.
Do you know anyone who was gotten surgery lately? Whether it be a coronary bypass surgery, or getting their tonsils out, the first experiments of any surgeries were most likely performed on animals before they were performed on humans. Animal testing has been around for centuries, as is a very beneficial way to improve our lives. Many groundbreaking medical advances have been done first by using animals, so they can save thousands or even millions of human lives. Along with these experiments are guidelines that the FDA carefully regulates, so the environment, subjects, and scientists are efficient and progressive. It may came as a surprise to you, but in most studies, animals are actually better test subjects than humans. Each segment will
Animal testing is so much money, The cost of animal testing is not needed if no test are done and if their is no test the animals can enjoy their lives said a environmental expert and for a cancer test it cost about 2 million to 4 million and that money could be used for other uses and cancer is a big problem today, but hunger is another problem or even global warming lots of things are happening to this earth and money is the only way to help it (Understanding Animals).
Unfortunately, animals being put through testing face conditions that are extremely unhealthy. Animals are kept in unsanitary areas with little to no space at all. According to the organization Humane Society International, “animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation…” (“Animal Testing - ProCon.org”). With no rights at all animals are being forced into harsh medical testings for diseases that can kill or severely injure the animal, such as polio. Through undercover investigation animals located in these labs are living “stressful, monotonous, and unnatural lives of daily confinement and deprivation” (“Animal Testing - ProCon.org”). Not only are these conditions being displayed in large laboratories, but also universities such as University of Oklahoma. During these experiments animals are being“fed chemicals, infected with diseases they would not naturally get, and are treated with no painkillers” (Animal Testing - ProCon.org”). As a result, medical testing facilities should be unable to be this inhumane to animals. Even though these tests may combat a widespread disease, animals should not have to endure this type of treatment at their own will.