Should Animal Testing Be Outlawed

For many years, the field of science has used animals in medical experiments worldwide, because of this innocent animals are being killed everyday. They are being tested with new drugs, new treatments, and by many makeup companies. Connecticut recently celebrated the passage of the “Beagle Freedom Law”, a law that requires laboratories to work with charities and rescue groups to find homes for research cats and dogs. Animals are being tested so humans do not have to be but animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings, although animals are the closest thing to humans. Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of innocent animal subjects. Over 100 million animals suffer a year from testing. Testing animals is a lot more expensive than alternative methods and it is wasting government research dollars. Animal testing is not only a bad idea, but it is also inhuman and it should not be tolerated. The FDA should stop allowing animal testing. An animal does not give out the same results on a test than a human would.

Jeremy Bentham once said, “The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?’” Animal testing is becoming a conflict right now and I believe that Animal testing should be stopped because it is cruel and inhuman, Alternative testing technologies exist, the lack of reliability, and it is expensive. Another quote once said was by Martin Luther King Jr stating “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake” That quote is saying why do wrong when right can be done, especially when people and animals are involved. Animals have feelings and enjoy life as much as humans do so keeping them in captivity and testing drugs on them is cruel and inhuman.

Protesting has been going around the world for many of years. Throughout many years of people boycotted agents a situation they believe, if a wrong or right. One of the biggest areas on where people gather around and protest is when they’re fighting agents animals testing. As well as the years has pasted on protesting on animals, it became more sires in increased in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Many cosmetics companies been testing on animals throughout the years there is also many that have not. The cosmetics line LUSH has been fighting over animals testing for over thirty years and will continue to fight for their right according to the company. When LUSH had first started the company had divided they didn 't ever wanted to test their product on animal. Not only fighting agents animals testing LUSH is also ego friendly; everything they use its plants, oil, and recycle. Since LUSH having to be agents animal testing, policies had created to work with the companies of cosmetics to end the cruelty of animals. The LUSH company say “ This can be done without animal testing …” and it true. LUSH is a company that all there product dills with ones skin to make them fell and look beautiful. If LUSH can test their products other than animals and still make your still looking good then, other cosmetics companies can do the same.

There has been a lot of animal testing in the United States and thousands of animals already have been killed. In research and testing, animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything from testing new drugs, poisoning for toxicity testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the brain, maiming, blinding, and other painful and invasive procedures. Animal testing should not be allowed to proceed because millions of animals are getting killed, the results aren't always right, and it is more expensive to test it on animals.

One reason animal testing should be banned is that animals in the testing environment feel scared and afraid. Also in those labs after animals have suffered through the process of being tested on they are then dumped back into a cage without any painkillers to ease the extreme pain that they are facing. Have you ever broken a bone or burned yourself on something and it has hurt extremely? Imagine that going through your entire body and the people that have done that to you don’t even give you something to help ease it. Well, this happens on a daily basis to those animals and in all honesty,it probably goes on for the rest of their life.

“We know that animals can experience pain and distress in experiments and that this can be severe. The way that animals are bred, transported, housed and handled may also cause suffering.”(RSPCA) Animal testing is an issue that has existed since the early 1900s. Some countries have passed laws to ban the use of animals in cosmetic testing, but the United States has not. This is important because over 100 million animals are tested on each year across the world. “Europe, the world’s largest cosmetic market, Israel and India have already banned animal testing for cosmetics, and the sale or import of newly animal-tested beauty products.”(dosomething.org) Animal testing needs to be banned from the United States.

Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. There are many reasons why people should discontinue animal testing. People continue to do animal testing due to them being mostly reliable test subjects. Although drugs that work, tested on animals, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s safe. Animals are very different from humans in terms of DNA and genetics, therefore making them sometimes unreliable test subjects, and sometimes making drugs that do pass animal tests not necessarily safe all the time.

Since the Victorian Era ‘make-up’ now a commonly used term has evolved for the women of modern civilization. It symbolized a social hierarchy within the Victorian era, a level of class and grace established to disembody the sophisticated ladies form the lower class. The make-up industry today is now open for all types of people, cultures, and genders. Although it has made great human advancements, the cosmetic industry now faces the consequences of their growth due to their inhumane treatment of animals. Whereas it benefits humans, animals should not be used for testing because it causes distress and anguish to the experimental animals, we should not treat them as means to further our own advancements but as another living part in our ecosystem, animal testing violates the rights of animals since they have the power to think, to feel and taking part in an experiment as a tool is not moral towards them.

Everyone has probably worn or has owned something animal tested, whether they’ve known it or not. Animal testing has been around since the early ADs but was most commonly known for starting about 150 years ago with the rise of physiology as a science. As “Companies That Still Use Animal Testing” says, these testings have gone down a lot with new developments for these kind of testing but there are still many major companies such as L’oreal, Clorox, Covergirl, MAC, Pantene, Dove, Avon and hundreds of other companies you’ve probably used. These companies torture these animals and even kill them with their products just so there is yet another

Imagine if every day you spent your life in an uncomfortable environment such as a small cage. Imagine there, day in and day out, horrible things happened to you; Such as being forced fed, being inflicted with burns and various other wounds, poisoned, shut off from members of your species, being deprived of food and water, all while likely even being led to death. Every year, this happens to over 100 million animals, including mice, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, birds, frogs, and even animals you might have as your own pets such as cats and dogs (Peta.) This is the phenomenon known as “animal testing.” Animal testing is any scientific experiment or test in which an animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause pain, suffering, distress, or lasting harm. Some of these experiments include injecting or force feeding animals with harmful substances, exposing animals to radiation, surgically removing animals’ organs or tissues, forcing animals to inhale toxic gases, or subjecting animals to scary situations to induce anxiety and depression. (Crueltyfreeinternational.) This practice is not only morally wrong, but it is also ineffective, outdated, and wasteful. The practice of animal testing should be banned.

¨Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisioned and abused in US labs every year¨ (¨11 Facts About Animal Testing¨). Imagine if that was someones animal getting tortured in labs just to test things such as beauty products and perfume. Animal testing was first suggested when, ¨Charles Darwin evolutionary theory in the mid 1850s also served to suggest that animals could serve as effective models to facilitate biological understanding in humans¨ (Murnaghan). But, ¨the enormous breakout came in 1922 when animal testing allowed for insulin¨ (Murnaghan). Animal testing should be banned because it is inhumane, most of the testing on animals does not benefit humans, and animals bodies work differently than humans.

What does Colgate, Band-Aid, Tylenol, Kleenex, L’Oreal, Gillette, Ziploc, and Ben & Jerry’s have in common? They all are companies that test on animals. Animal testing has been a routine process mainly in the cosmetic industry, among others, around the world since the time of the ancient Greeks. Not only is this practice inhumane, but it is also thought to be ineffective by many researchers and scientists. More than half of the tests that are performed on animals have different reactions on humans, and innocent animals are unnecessarily put through cruel treatment. Animals do not deserve to be used as subjects for research work or product testing.

Have you seen that picture of the cute puppy on Facebook that’s gone viral? Wow! Me neither! Drug tests are done on animals to predict effects and results all for the sake of humans. Animal testing started back around AD 129-200; when a famous doctor named Galen started using animals to study animals and other doctors joined the bandwagon. Ever since then, animal testing started escalating rapidly and it is still escalating in modern day practices. However, testing new drugs on animal should be stopped because it is cruel, unreliable and wasteful.

As a society we have failed to notice, it’s everywhere. The animal testing footprint. Aeroguard, Chapstick, Michael Kors, Palmolive and Dettol: these common household brands all have the dark footprints of animal experimentation embedded into it.

According to PETA, statistics show that each year more than ten million animals are “killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing.” It’s no surprise that animal testing has caused a lot of controversy in the world throughout the past few years. Vegans and Omnivores tend to go head to head over the rights of animals. Some people even question if these animals should even have rights at all, while others believe that the lives of human being’s and these wildlife creatures are synonymous and go hand in hand, or they should to say the least. Not only does animal testing unethically lack mercy and morality, but it’s also not the safest and vigorous way to go. Quite a lot of people are opposed to this general disputation, and their argument will be debunked in this paper, after a thorough explanation has been presented along with their opposing positions.