Should animal testing be a research method in today's society? This has been a rising topic of today’s society, especially in the United States. Many would support this question as it has been used as a research method for scientific and commercial products to ensure safety for humans when they receive the final product. However, others would argue against animal testing due to its immorality of the researcher’s actions towards the animals as well inaccurate results received from the studies. While animal testing has benefited medical science in the past, but using animal testing today is seen to many as cruel and inhumane due to the rise of alternative testing strategies that result in fewer expenses and less damaging to animal kind. Animal testing has been a primary mean of research since 500 BC to test medical treatments and the safety of products designed for humans whether it be commercial or medical use. These animals were intentionally used to discover the functions of living organisms when animal testing first began. Scientists dating back to 130 AD were found to use animals to discover and confirm theories of philosophy, pathology, anatomy, and pharmacology. Opposition to animal testing had begun in the 1800’s in England while Queen Victoria was in power. The queen herself was against animal testing therefore, she created the Great Britain’s Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876. However, even though regulations on animal testing had existed, many still actively used
When a young girl is looking at a magazine ad for the latest eyeshadow makeup, she notices that the model has on a shade of eyeshadow that looks gorgeous, but did she ever considered how that eyeshadow was manufactured? That makeup product was more than likely tested on animals for eye and skin irritation. Many research labs are using defenseless animals for testing and unnecessary experiments. There are three different types of people that have different thoughts. The one type of person really does not seem to bring the situation to life, and pushes it to the back of their mind, while the other type of person stands for animal testing because it may help save someone's life. Many people believe it is alright for animals to be used for extensive examining and those people think that since animals have similar biological DNA, scientists can use them for testings. Although, there are people who believe that animal testing is not okay, and does not need to exist. People who think that animal testing is bad will say that animal testing can be torture. During the act of animal testing, animals have no say in being tested on. It can be considered animal cruelty. Animals are not treated fairly after being tested on. Animal testing is not always reliable with data. Animals should not be used in medical and/or cosmetic lab testing for several compelling reasons.
Animal experimentation is a brutal way to see if products are going to be able to be used on humans. When scientists test products on animals, it causes the helpless them to be in excessive amounts of pain. The animals experience murderous tests like drilling into their skulls, and burning their skin, and eyes. Even though animal experimentation helps to find new diseases and medicines that are safe for humans, scientists should not use animals to experiment on because it doesn't always work ,and the tests are causing unnecessary harm to living animals.
In today's world, more than 100 million animals are killed each year in the name of animal testing. Now as some might say that sacrifice is needed for the common good, it is safe to say that animal testing may be taking it over the top to get such test results for the "common good". Animal testing has been a common practice for many years to get results and side effects for food, drugs, pesticides, beauty products, and just about everything one uses in an average day. But now, in the modern world where ethics and animals rights come into the light, the subject of animal testing has become quite a spectacle to be fought over. In an interesting way, the debate over animals questions the humanity of the people of the world, and how far they
It is estimated that 25 million animals are used to conduct product testing for human use. These product testing’s can range from the shampoo we use to our medicine. There are many alternatives to inhumane and cruel tests done on defenseless animals. Banning the testing of products on animals in the U.S. would end the suffering and wrongfulness towards animals.
Today, at this very minute. there are millions of mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, primates and other animals are locked up in tiny cages in laboratories, universities and schools across the world. They are in excruciating pain from all the torture they get put through. All they want is to be free from their daily torment. In this article we will show you the errors of animal experimentation how they are treated and the alternative ways to test products.
The use of research on animals originated from the Greeks in the 3rd century. Animal testing has evolved over time, for this reason, the modern era of animal testing began about 150 years ago. Experimentations on animals have been a common ethical dilemma in society for the past centuries. I believe that animal testing can benefit mankind, because many animals have the same body organs and functions as humans; therefore they are useful for conducting research for developing drugs, medical procedures, and treatments.
Take a moment and think about all the progress we have made as humans. All the technical advances, medical advances and so forth are all technologies we have discovered over time. Humans have learned how to expand life expectancies by making such discoveries. But just how did we get to this point? How did we know what it would take to make a vaccine and that it would actually work? How did we know that an anesthetic would remove the pain of surgery? How do we know what chemicals inside of makeup and beauty products are safe for skin? All of these advances and more could have only been possible with the help of animals and the experimentation of these animals. These questions and many others could only be answered through the help of animals.
Do you ever wonder how the makeup that you bought last night doesn’t blind you? Do you ever wonder what happens to the thousands of animals that aren’t in the rescue centers? Do you ever wonder what happens to those animals bought and never to be seen again? Two words, Animal Testing. This awful way of testing hundreds of companies products on these poor, innocent animals. Half to almost all of those animals get killed by these confused researchers looking for a way to make a profit. We need to find an alternative for these cruel researchers. We need to free those animals, they deserve to have a normal life, like any other animal these animals are not any different, nor should they be treated any differently than those animals who have
Animal testing is a rampant controversial issue in today’s society. Safety tests are conducted with a massive range of chemicals, including: new drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, household cleaners, and packing materials. Approximately 4 million animals have been/will be used in safety tests. Tom Regan, a philosophy professor at North Carolina State University states: “Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment… This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment.” Animals that are used in these safety tests are subjected to tests that are often painful or cause permanent damage or death, and they never have the option of participating or not. There are plenty of reasons for understanding
Medical research involving testing on animals is a divisive subject, as is any ethical issue. The medical community at large advocates for this practice as a medical research necessity, seemingly without considering the available alternatives. If society wants to make a change, we must do it by removing the option of animal testing, so that the medical community will have be forced to consider and improve the numerous alternatives. Medical research involving animal testing should be forbidden by law because it is an unethical practice, there are alternatives available, and because the results obtained from animal testing are often irrelevant to humans.
Animal testing isn’t something that’s new and unheard of, it has been around for centuries. Using animals for research testing is not only being done in the U.S but also all over the world. What many people don’t understand is that these tests don’t just involve cute, little mice and a maze with a block of cheese at the finish line, it is long days of just sitting in a small cage with little food waiting to be chosen for the next terrifying and painful experiment. It is a harmful and cruel way of testing medicines, surgeries, and other products, to see if it may or may not be safe to use on humans. Unnecessary animal testing is killing thousands of animals every year, it is time to use alternatives for testing purposes instead.
At dictionary.com, animal testing is defined as the use of non-human animals in research and development projects for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs. Some scientists used/use animal testing to save lives, although animal researchers are known to abuse other’s good works by utilizing animals for “analysis”. The general public and animal right activists have been trying to get researchers to properly justify these actions for decades. Over one hundred million dogs, cats, and rodents are scorched, crippled, poisoned, and battered in United States labs every year. Therefore, animals should not be used in the study or testing the safety of the unnecessary cosmetic and household items.
Animal testing, or do you mean animal cruelty? As of now, approximately hundred millions of animals are locked in frigid, barren cages in laboratories across the country. These distressed, uncared for creatures every year are massacred from the toxic chemicals, poisonous foods, lethal drugs, damaging cosmetics, biology experiments and medical training, even for exploratory experimental purposes from these testings.
Animal experimentation causes tremendous harm and suffering to otherwise innocent animals. The cruelty level on testing ranges from food and water deprivation, to cosmetic purposes, to burning and chemical exposures, to injections of diseases they would have otherwise never contracted on their own, to purposeful death of an animal or groups of animals to see how it would take place or how much an animal can withstand before termination (Humane Society International). The Silver Spring Monkeys is known as the case that launched PETA. A member of PETA went undercover in a lab that tested on 17 monkeys living in tiny wire cages that were caked with years of feces that had accumulated (PETA). These monkeys were subjected to surgeries where their spinal nerves were severed, rendering one or more of their limbs useless (PETA). “Through the use of shock, food and water deprivation, and other methods, the monkeys were forced to try to regain the use of their limb(s) or go without food. The trauma of the monkeys’ imprisonment was so traumatizing they ripped away their own flesh and had lost most of their fingers from getting them caught in tiny wire cage bars.” (PETA). Experimenters also neglected to feed the 17 monkeys and would often force them to dig beneath their feces to try to locate food. The monkeys would be moved from cage to experimental tables and rooms only with a choking rod placed around their neck. This case was the first Supreme Court victory for animals used in
Observation and experimentation are how we as humans have been able to learn more about ourselves and the world and universe we live in. One of the most common methods of experimentation is animal testing. However, there are controversies surrounding animal testing. There are some that believe animal testing to be cruel and overdone, advocating for the eradication of the practice and further reliance alternative research methods. Groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other animal rights advocates fall in this category. There are some that believe animal testing to be an invaluable resource and should continue, such as some scientists and research groups. However, there appears to me to be a consensus that is closer to the middle: the belief and understanding that while there are benefits to animal testing, there are flaws in the practice and there should be changes to increase its efficacy while we simultaneously explore alternate testing methods. Many scientists and the National Institute of Health (NIH) subscribe to this idea. I aim to explore the benefits, problems, and implications of animal testing in order to reach a more informed conclusion about a position that is most validated by the information I have used.