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
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.
To conclude, I feel that animal testing is not right and I am against the current animal testing system, which is mandatory by law. I think the fact that the animals don’t have a choice and are being forced to be tested, which puts their life in danger, is wrong. I also believe that animal testing is the wrong thing to do when there are many alternatives that would cause no harm to animals (or humans). Jeremy Bentham once said, “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” – The answer is
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.
Animal testing has been a controversial topic for many generations throughout the world. People against animal testing say that animal testing is cruel and inhumane and
I went onto to the PETA website looking for articles on this topic and i found something that sparked my interest it said that we no longer needed to test on animals because we had alterenativses. Scienctist have developed a new way to test the effects of drugs on the human body with ought using human volunteers or animals. They have created a way to mimic the cell of the body onto slides to test how it effects the human body called vitro testing . Apparently the leading scientist in these fields have been looking for other ways to test but not on animals. They've also dedvolped a simulation
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
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.
Animal testing is first and for most pointless and a waste of time and money. After the passing of an animal trial, there must always be human trials as well. Since animal testing is unreliable, the real testing still solely relies on the human tests. This demonstrates that this method is unnecessary. Greek and Greek argue that “those who say we test on animals to avoid testing on people are wrong. Once animal studies are complete, all new medications are evaluated on humans. The first people to take a new substance are being experimented on as surely as if they were guinea pigs locked in a laboratory” (59). In addition to that, the 21st century has brought many new advances in technology and science and because we have these new advances, animal testing now is completely unnecessary. Bif Naked states, “It doesn't just make sense for animals, but for people, too, because state-of-the-art non-animal tests offer a far more reliable way to predict how consumers like you or me will react to a product in the real world.” While many of these method have not been explored fully, they are still extremely promising, less harmful, cheaper, and produce more accurate results. Rachel Rutter states, “Effective, affordable, and humane research methods include studies of human populations, volunteers, and patients, as well as sophisticated in vitro, genomic, and computer-modeling techniques.” None of these methods
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
Animal testing isn't the only way to test products. Researchers are currently working to take cells from humans and use those to test out medicine. They are also working to “grow” their own cells to mimic the function of organs in humans. This gives them the ability to test medicine on that instead of testing it out on animals. We can also test product on human volunteers. The best way to test products for humans is with humans and if we have people volunteering we can test these products. This would ensure that we get the best results and you can see the effects it would have on
Not only animals, but human lives too (Animal testing is bad Science). “ Most animal experiments are not relevant to human health, they do not contribute meaningfully to medical advances and many are undertaken simply out of curiosity and do not even pretend to hold promise of curing illnesses.” Says Noah Berlatsky. Even if you tested something on an animal multiple times, someone is going to have to be the first human to have to test the product on themselves. Even when humans could benefit from on a product being tested, they're still really bad for animals. For example, aspirin; it is a benefit to humans, but did you know that it kills cats while it also causes birth defects in dogs, guinea pigs, and other animals too (Berlatsky). Animals are living things and don't deserve to be treated this way. They shouldn't have to be forced to suffer in cages with disease and injury. Animals are treated as objects that have little meaning to them and little value with their lives besides the cost to purchase them (Hunnicutt). More than $2 billion was wasted because the drugs that passed the animal, failed the human test. Not only do people get sick from the product they tested on animals, but about 95% of schools use animal testing to train their kids which is wasting more animal
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
Animal testing has been an issue for years. From hearing ads on the news to seeing protests on the streets, most American citizens know what animal testing is. It has always been a problem for us as humans. But not only is it just a problem, it is a cruel, harsh and almost absolutely pointless one. Everyday, animals are subjected to painful and harsh tests that hardly even work. Most of these inhumane tests