Brittany Thorne
Animals In Laboratories For Testing
Would you want to be tortured and remain miserable all so somebody could test on you? Animal testing is continuing to be a major issue happening all around us. We need to raise awareness for these animals. To the animals we are their only hope. This ongoing issue is a topic we need to become more informed about, as its very important. Animals are treated as objects instead of living creatures. The testing includes about 80% of these experiments are used for research and drug development. The u.s. law allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and brain damaged. The way they go about the testing needs to be changed. There needs to be alternatives without the harm of animals or any living creature. Testing on animals can be an acceptation, but its about the way they treat them to do these tests.
When we decide to experiment on these animals, we are not getting accurate results. Not only is this unreliable but its unethical. The labs think conducting these tests helps people, but
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There is a new alternative for testing on animals. The system includes using human cells and tissues known as “vitro” methods. The technique uses an advanced computer modeling, and studies with human volunteers. This takes less time and money to conduct. Volunteers are given an extremely small one time drug dose, and uses imaging techniques to monitor how the drug is working in the body. Macrodosing replaces certain tests and helps screen out drug compounds that do not work on humans. This is so they wont needlessly advance to government required testing. The drugs for humans would be safer than they are now if the animal testing was eliminated. Studies have shown testing has only worked for humans through animal testing about 5-25 percent of the time. Yes it helps, but we shouldn’t be staying focused on a method that only works less than half of the
One of the main reasons I am against animal testing is the fact that the animals don’t have a choice and are being forced to be tested, which can lead to them getting seriously ill or dying as a cause of the testing. Each year in the USA alone, an estimate of 70 million animals are taken away from their natural habitat, blinded, scalded, force-fed chemicals, genetically manipulated, and basically hurt and killed in the name of science, by private
Laurie Pycroft, an advocate for animal rights states, “Humans differ from other animals anatomically, genetically and metabolically, meaning data derived from animals cannot be extrapolated to humans with sufficient accuracy”(Pycroft, Laurie, and Helen Marston). This is just one of the many reasons as to why animals should not be tested on. Testing on animals leads to problems down the road for when it has been approved for human test trials. The way these animals are used and kept is deplorable and inhumane as well. Animals should not be tested on in laboratories because they cannot be used to accurately test new drugs meant for humans.
Although most people think testing is cruel and that researchers are mean, heartless people, the researchers actually only test on animals because they want to keep everyone safe. Researchers don’t
Testing on animals for medical reasons does not make it okay. It is unethical that these animals are taken from their habitats and placed in confined cages to be test subjects. The experiments these animals are subject to include poisoning, vivisection and toxicology. That can be considered lucky, compared to others who are burned, crippled, and neglected intentionally in the name of medicine. At this time, there is no form of testing considered illegal. They are used as subjects until death. After each experiment data is recorded and time is allowed for the animal to heal for the next experiment (Cruelty Free). If the test results are not too harsh the testing continues with more dosage or a different product. Animals that survive cannot be released back into nature because the subject could negatively affect the ecosystem; even those that survive all experiments are killed (Neavs). Those animals never got to experience life outside of a laboratory. The conditions these animals go through are morally wrong but are ignored because it is considered research. The use of animals in should immediately be stopped and outlawed because it not right to sentence a creature to death because they have no say-so.
The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel and inhumane but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia. There have been past occasions where drugs passed on animals weren’t even safe. There is no excuse for animal testing in today’s techy world, there are now many alternatives for animal testing that would put an end to the pain and suffering endured by these innocent animals during human testing.
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.
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…)
An English philosopher once stated his question about animals, “Can they reason? Can they talk? Most importantly, Can they suffer?”(Singer). Animal testing is inhumane and should be banned. House pets such as rodents, rabbits, and even dogs are being tested on all around the world. These voiceless animals are intentionally given nasty diseases and infections to find cures while scientists could be using alternative ways of testing instead of using these powerless animals. Most experimentation has nothing to do with medical research, it is product testing. Animals should not be used for product testing or medical research.
Even though there has been consistent breakthroughs thanks to the help of the animals used in the animal testing there are a lot of people who are against the use of animal in the testing because they believe it to be cruel and inhumane. Some way these people are right the animals could be starved to see the effect that it has on the brain. This has been the biggest moral
Over 26 million animals are experimented on each year in the United States. Animals are very different from human beings, Medicine that cures mice or rats,sometimes can cause death or diseases to humans. Although products tested on animals are generally safe, it can be a horrible thing to everyone. Animal testing is cruel because it harms and/or possibly kills animals, merchandise that is experimented on animals may have damaging side effects on their health, and it interferes with their growth and development
Animal testing has been seen as cruel and inhumane for hundreds of years, especially recently with new technology for testing. In the United States, it is legal for animals to be burned, shocked, starved, poisoned,
Experimenting on animals is inhumane. According to PETA, every year in the US, 100 million animals including rodents, frogs, dogs, primates, and more are killed. This shows that testing isn’t for the common good, it does more harm than help. Scientists are allowed to burn, shock, poison, and do even more to the animals. Not only are they being physically hurt, often killed, their emotional needs are not met. Often times they are isolated from any other animals and humans, crammed
For decades now animal testing has been a known method in society. The downside of the reality is society is not fully aware of what is going on behind closed doors, and the severity of what animal testing truly is. Although there have been many points where animal testing has proven to help in certain studies, it is also proven to be unnecessary. Biomedical industries are looking for the next cure or the safest makeup for example, but the process of it all is wrong. There are millions of animals yearly being put through suffering and cruel conditions with no break or recovery time. There is no way to actually see results in such a vigorous treatment. These animals are sick and abused daily for long periods of time and to think that any living
More than 10 different species of animals are tested on each year in the United States, adding up to a total of more than 100 million animals. That’s only accounting for the number of animals being tested on that people are willing to admit. There are millions of more animals that many laboratories and the government don’t want us to know about. About 90% of animals that are being tested on are not accounted for. Testing on animals is not ethical and should be illegal because it causes much pain to the animals. Pain such as burning skin, brain damage, and even death can be a result of testing.
Animal testing is often cruel and inhumane. The Draize eye test, used by cosmetics companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoos and other products, involves rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested. We do this to test if a mascara is harmful or not is dreadful. The fact that this has ever been allowed is nauseating. Another example of cruel treatment is when scientists use MPTP to replicate Parkinson's disease in a Marmoset. If we don’t want to go thru the experiment ourselves, then why should we have a living being that shares 99% of it’s DNA go thru it. We need to enforce the rules we have on animal testing or not this will continue