Why Animal Testing Is Cruel And Inhumane?

Approximately 225 million animals are used for testing every year. Billions have been killed in the process. ("Questions and Answers About Biomedical Research.”) How can this be allowed? Isn’t it cruel to use animals to test products for humans? Many animal rights activists say, “yes” to this question. However, scientists argue it is necessary and animal research can help save human lives. There are probable arguments for both sides. But the dangers of using animals to test products for human use weighs an even greater risk than not using the animals. Alternatives are much more ethical.

Is testing animals for medical treatments cruel? How do you feel about sending out treatments that were thought to work and cure someone’s disease when in truth the said treatment makes their disease worse or even kills that person? What if you were told that it could have been prevented? That is one reason why testing live tissue is an important and crucial part of developing treatments for diseases. Testing animals for medical treatments is reasonable because testing on non-living tissue will not get accurate results. Also, animal testing has created many cures to a broad spectrum of diseases on multiple different species.

Question: What if people were kept in captivity, forced to eat certain things, and get skin injections on a weekly basis? People do not deserve to be treated that way, neither do animals. Scientists are treating animals cruelly due to drug and cosmetic testing. Animal testing is wrong because it is harmful to animals, expensive, and not always accurate.

The way in which animals are treated during testing is enough to make one's stomach turn. Starved, burned, shocked; the list goes on. For example, monkeys are restrained while chemicals are injected into their skin and eyes. Metal bolts are also screwed into their heads and shocked with electrodes. PETA states that “every year, more than 100,000 primates are experimented on in the United States.” Evidence has been uncovered showing sedated mothers struggling to stay awake and comfort their panicked babies, while scientists laugh in the background. Additionally, thousands of rabbits are victims everyday to the Draize Eye Test, where rabbits are physically restrained while chemicals are placed into their eyes to determine the effects. The products stay in the animals’ eyes for weeks at a time and cause extreme pain and blindness. This may seem like the most horrific thing an animal subject could endure, but it is not even the worst one of all; the list goes on. The horror never stops either: for their entire lives, the innocent

Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and "killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means." [47] 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. [48][49] The commonly used LD50 (lethal dose 50) test involves finding out which dose of a chemical will kill 50% of the animals being used in the experiment. [65][102] The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2016 that 71,370 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,272 nonhuman primates, 5,771 rabbits, 24,566 guinea pigs, and 33,280 hamsters. [121]

Do you know how many animals are killed yearly for the use of animal testing? More than 100 million animals are murdered. Testing on animals is cruel and inhumane. However, alternate methods can be used to replace the need for animals. As a final point, animal tests are more expensive than other methods. Animals have been used to practice on since antient times.

The testing of animals in the cosmetic industry is purely inhumane, due to the fact that the benefit of testing does not prove to be as useful to offset the negative impact it has on animals, or offset the value of alternatives testing. “The thinking, feeling animals who are used in experiments are treated like nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment.” The scientist testing on animals should not treat animals like they are not living, conscious beings. The amount of suffering inflicted upon animals is inessential and repugnant for the selfish purpose of humans to increase their physical appearance; it is not a necessity for people to change their appearance through cosmetics. A law should be passed to outlaw the testing being done on animals for cosmetic purposes because there are alternatives that are more effective, cheaper, and humane then testing on animals.

Animal testing is an experimentation performed on animals. Scientists test on animals to assess the how safe and effective a product for humans is, this can be anything from medication, pesticides, industrial chemicals, food additives, household products, supplements, and cosmetics. Animal testing is morally wrong as it involves the torturing of innocent animals. “Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country. They languish in pain, ache with loneliness, and long to roam free and use their minds. Instead, all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful

Would you like to see animals suffer everyday because of a lab test? Just imagine seeing pictures and videos of harmless animals being tested and tortured for human benefits. A research by Cruelty Free International and Dr. Hadwen Trust estimates about 115 million animals are being used in experiments all around the world each year. Animal testing should be prohibited and not be used for research. The reasons are that the method of animal testing is very cruel and inhumane. Also most experiments that scientists conduct, do not work and the life of an animal is wasted.

There was a man named Immanuel Kant, who once said, “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” This paper will be covering the moral issue on animal testing and whether animal testing is right or wrong. I will be applying the theories of Deontological, Utilitarianism and Virtue Ethics viewpoints on animal testing and then see which moral issue is better.

Animal testing is a hotly debated topic among many people. It is the use of animals for research purposes, or to test various new medicines or products. The goal is to see how the animals will react before the products are used for human consumption. The problems arise with the issue of ethics and whether or not the results will actually translate to humans. Those in favor of animal testing will say that animal testing is beneficial, and that the life of a human should be prioritized before other animals. Also, testing on animals will prevent any damage to humans that would arise from human testing. Those against animal testing believe that humans and all other animals should be treated as equals. They also believe that it is inhumane to test

“Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs and other animals are locked inside barren cages in laboratories across the world. They languish in pain, ache, with lonliness, and long to be free. Instead, all they can do is sit and wait in fear for the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them”. This statement about animal testing is from PETA.org. I have a strong belief about this topic so I am arguing the point that animal testing is cruel and a waste of time and money.

Today animal test subjects such as white rats are used in experiments such as drug testing to make sure it is safe for humans and as a result some animals die. Most scientists live by certain moral most of which are humane unlike Nazi scientists. In their eyes, the perfect test subjects to use were humans, mostly concentration camp inmates. Leading and foremost Nazi doctors were caught and brought to justice before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after the end of World War II. The trail exposed evidence of inhumane and immoral human experiments performed at the Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau concentration camps. Twenty Nazi doctors were charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ever

Animal testing, is it ethical? Does it hurt the animals? Do they die from it? These are all questions you may ask about animal testing. All those questions could go different ways. Some people may think it is ethical, and some may think it is unethical. Does it hurt them, is another one where it could go both ways. Sometimes it depends on the kind of test they do on them it may even kill them. But sometimes it could also be harmless, like when they test the effects of cosmetics on their skin.

According to the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 70% of American population take a minimum of one prescribed medicine (MAYO CLINIC). Medical Science is an area of science with the purpose of analyzing and preventing illnesses and discovering cures for diseases ("Medical Science"). According to protagonists of Medical Science, this is one of the most beneficial methods of healing patients, because medicine is seen to have more effective results than other techniques such as alternative medicines (Friedman). Although Medical Science assists in getting rid of even fatal disorders, experimenting on animals is unethical and its results are not exact to be applied to people, also the side effects of all kinds of drugs are risks to patients’ health, and