Imagine yourself strapped to a table while strangers with cold hands pry open your eyes to drop a burning liquid onto your pupils, all while poking and prodding your limbs. This kind of needless torture happens hundreds of times every day as scientists try to find answers to scientific questions, only to find out that all of the pain and suffering was all for nothing. Animal dissection has a long history that dates back to the Stone Age, but did not gain traction until the seventeenth century. At this time, English physician William Harvey managed to demonstrate circulation of blood using animals and then applied it to humans showing the value of vivisection for accurately illustrating physiology as well as anatomy in 1628 (Judson 15). After …show more content…
According to NEAV, “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has noted that 92 percent of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous.” The article goes on to explain that out of the 8 percent of drugs that do pass the human trials, half of them must be relabeled to account for unforeseen side effects on human subjects. The ramifications of these failing experiments cost companies millions of dollars. Furthermore, PETA explains that there are several drugs that are essential to human medicine that react quite negatively in animals. For example, aspirin kills cats and causes birth defects in several other animals including dogs and monkeys. If that drug had first been tested on cats, it never would have reached the market and provided the extensive relief it has to date. Also, animals in laboratories to be experimented upon are known to display understandably stressed behavior which jeopardizes the accuracy and credibility of the results. For example, in a NewScientist article by Ann Baldwin, the dangers of anxious animals are explained. The report writes that “rats housed in such conditions (laboratories) show an inflammatory response in their intestines accompanied by leaky blood vessels.” The article proceeds to examine the outcome of that response (along with others) and
Imagine being poked and prodded with a needle, all to test for a new drug against
An estimated fifty-six billion animals are slaughtered every year just for human consumption. The consumption of these animals is now redundant and wasteful because meat and dairy products are not necessary for the majority of human’s survival. Humans should stop eating animals and animal by-products because it is morally wrong, this is due to the fact that many of the animals humans consume can feel pain. Humans should stop eating other animals if it is not essential for their survival. In addition, the conditions that animals are subjected to in farms and slaughterhouses are harsh. Moreover, the amount of grain that is required to feed farmed animals is high and can be used to feed humans instead of animals that will inevitably be killed
Is it fair to do experiments on a helpless animal for the benefits of human beings? No,it is not fair to do experiments on helpless animals. Animal testing is when cruel and harmful experiments are done on innocent animals for specific reasons such as saving human lives. In animal testing, they take these innocent little animals and run horrible,cruel, and graphic test on them. "An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing." (Humane Society International n.p.). So many different kinds of animals are taken captive to be tested on these gruesome experiments. There are many experiments
Going way back in time to the ancient times, Greek scientists and physicians used animals to satisfy their curiosity of the human body. They examined different areas of the body ranging from nerves to muscles in an attempt to better comprehend what was going on functionally. One Greek physician by the name
Most decent people believe in fairness, equality and doing the right thing. Then there are those individuals who are corrupt and immoral? As human beings, the world would be a better place if our society made a conscious effort to conduct themselves honourably and ethically. Is killing animals morally right? Millions of living creatures that experience pain just as much as humans are suffering unnecessarily for cosmetic research. How can society allow this to happen to other living creatures? It is completely outrageous. Isn’t society supposed to serve justice and not injustice? What happens when the test subject keeps evolving? First it was mice, then rabbits, then monkeys, now deer. What are next humans? Everyone with a heart cares for
Working Thesis: Animal testing continues to be a problem in America, affecting animals and humans through toxic, unnecessary experiments that can easily be avoided through alternative procedures. Berry, Colin. " Hazardous Products: Cut Animal Wastage in Toxicology Testing. " Nature, vol. 523, no. 7561, 23 July 2015, p. 410.
Although some people argue that animal testing has played a vital role in medical industries however, it has been proven that the majority of animal experimentation has no significant impact or breakthrough that could be beneficial to humans. This makes us question the validity of these experiments, and if they truly have any benefits. This idea is supported by Dr. Bross , the director of biostatistics at the Roswell Institute for Cancer Research who states that the conflicting animal results that have been found have never produced a single advance either in preventing or in curing cancer (as cited in Carlson, 2012, p. 398). The effort done by the scientists and doctors who care about people's health and work hard to provide safety for them
Animal testing goes back to the Greeks in 4th and 3rd centuries, with Aristotle and Erasistratus among the first to perform experiments on living animals. Using birds, mice, eels, snails, and flies early physicist conducted experiments trying to discover cures for illness. In the 18th century a physicist by the name of Antoine Lavoisier, used a guinea pig in a calorimeter to demonstrate that respiration was a form of combustion. Later on Luigi Galvani demonstrated that electricity applied to a dead, dissected, frog’s leg muscle caused it to twitch. It wasn’t until the 1880’s and 1890’s that physicists made medical advances, Emil von Behring isolated the diphtheria toxin and demonstrated its effect in guinea pigs. He went to demonstrate immunity
Using lab animals is needed to determine the toxicity of chemicals but there are pros and cons. Lab animals are used to save human lives. Animals are used because they are similar in ways to humans. Animals lives are saved by testing. Testing on animals helps with the safety of products. The life of an animal is considered less than a human. Some cons of testing animals are that some animals be mistreated. Not all animals are similar to humans. Testing some animals may lead to false readings which threaten humans. Some alternatives have been created to take the place of animal testing but we still use animals. Testing animals are not well
Thesis Statement: Animal testing is a debatable issue in modern society. Some people argue that animal testing should be kept due to medical benefits and research study conveniences. However, I think animal experimentation should be banned by refuting supporters’ arguments.
One reason is the overwhelming number of experimental failures (PETA, n.d.) that are seen as irrelevant. It gave such an emotional impact because it involves the risk of harming and killing animals. In accordance with Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, a majority of experimental drugs has failed because animals could not provide accurate response of humans (FDA, 2013). However, out of context statistics are prevalent, specifically on social media. Sources fail to mention the stages and legal regulations considered before processing with lab animals. The stages — such as computer models, automatic screening, cell cultures, microbial studies (“Nine out of ten”, 2014), microdosing (“Alternatives”, n.d.) — are the proposed alternative methods of testing. There are differences between animals and humans, but there are similarities as well from digestion to the cardiovascular system (Festing,
Can animal testing be stopped? Geoff Watts believed it could be stopped. Watts questioned whether it was really necessary to continue animal testing. He knew they couldn’t just end animal testing overnight, this was something he was going to work hard to accomplish. His main goal was not only to end animal testing but to also replace it in the process. Then there's the question, with what?
Currently it is estimated that more than 100 million animals are used for research and experimentation on around the world every year. Apart from all the benefits of animal testing there are many good reasons which support banning the experimentations on animals such as: animal cruelty, selfishness, and danger of using the experiments result. Therefore animal experimentation should be banned.
Animal experimentation by scientists can be cruel and unjust, but at the same time it can provide long term benefits for humanity. Animals used in research and experiments have been going on for 2,000 years and keep is going strong. It is a widely debated about topic all over the world. Some say it is inhuman while others say it’s for the good of human kind. There are many different reasons why people perform experiments and why others total disagree with it.
Animals should be used for research and Experimentation because if the animals get sick or show any signs of acting abnormal then the scientists know it isn’t safe for humans to use. Animal research has played a big role in nearly every medical breakthrough over the last decade. Animals have the same organ system that perform the same task, which helps determine if what is being tested is safe for humans to use. Most of the medicines animals use the same medicine as humans like antibiotics, pain killers, and many more this helps to see if the medicine cures the animals without any harmful consequences then it would be safe and useful for humans to use.