Millions of animals are being unneedlessly tested on for cosmetics, even though there are plenty of alternatives available and most of the results are unreliable or not applicable to humans. Although the fight against animal testing has made huge progress recently, America has yet to stop this cruel practice and chooses to torture animals while other countries are making a stop to the testing (“Animal Testing 101”). Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked
A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR DECREASING THE RATE OF PETS ABANDONED BY OWNERS WHO CAN CARE FOR THEM TEMPORARILY, AND TO INCREASE SPACE IN ANIMAL SHELTERS FOR TRANSFERRED OR ABANDONED PETS. Such a tragedy it is for a family house pet, like a dog or kitten, to ride in the back seat of their owner’s car; either in a crate or on a leash; hoping to reach a destination for a day of play with their owner, only to find themselves in a place unknown. With that the owner, either stationed in the driver’s seat, standing
“Animal Experimentation” The concept of animal testing has grown to be very controversial. The thought of experimenting on animals results in different emotions. Many people would argue that experimenting on animals is brutal and others would argue otherwise. An article by the title of “Point: Animal Testing- A Necessary Evil?” written by Danielle Paterson, a pre-vet student at James Madison University argues that animal testing should be stopped. Paterson explains the cruelty behind animal experimentation
society if there were no medical research done on animal for human there would be medicine like we have today would be non-existent. Personally I feel that animal research is a necessity for accurate and well developed medicine that could not be produced without the use of animals. All of the animal research that is completed is without a doubt regulated for the protection of animals against abuse. Another thing that makes animals a prodigious testing material is because they mere humans in many similar
toxicological testing data, the data often do not include assessment on reproductive and developmental
Animal testing is defined as “any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm”(Cruelty Free). In my opinion, it is unethical to experiment on a thinking, feeling animal just for the purpose of a new beauty product because of this agony caused to the animal, not to mention the millions of animal deaths each year due to this testing. One of the most important questions to ask about using
Ethics of Animal Testing For my paper I chose the topic of animal testing because I have always been very passionate for animals and against animal abuse. I have never believed in animal testing and that there were always other alternatives. I wanted to look further into and educate myself about what is being done about this and why it is an ethical issue. I have come up with an axiom to summarize this topic. Testing animals in research revolves around the relative or moral value of humans and animals
Animal testing has been an important type of research in various science fields for many years, because it has been able to replicate the results of the research to positively affect humans. It has provided many cures to diseases and many basic products that are mass produced such as lotion, shampoo, sunscreen, etc. Adding on, animal testing is ethical since it follows many guidelines and restrictions made by numerous laws that protect animals from inhumane treatment. Although such testing can provide
In many religions it allows for humans to be dominant over animals for example in the Bible, Genesis 1:26 is says that’s God let humans have dominion over fish, fowl, cattle and all insects. Many different religious teachings actively encourage animal experimentations as long as there is no pain inflicted on the animals and the experiments will be beneficial to humans (Peek et al. 1997). In Hinduism cows are worshiped, in fact cows are not eaten and local villagers do not harm monkeys, there are
Erasistratus of Alexandria to Galen, who is known as the creator of experimental physiology, animals have been test subjects in experiments for more than two thousand years (Day 35). Every year in the world as many as twenty-two million animals are used for scientific or medical purposes (Day 10). A variety of animals are experimented on, including rats, mice, rabbits, dogs, cats, and primates (Day 10). Those against animal research believe the tests are pointless (Day 10). They presume if the experiments