Animal Rights: Animal Experimentation

You know those medicines that you can get at the Drug Store? Don’t you think that is the greatest medicine for headaches or allergy relief? Well, it was most likely tested on an animal and it could have killed them. Over 100 million animals are injured in a wide variety of ways in the U.S. alone . Some animals spend their entire lives in captivity constantly getting tortured or abused. Also, it has been proven that only 50% of the time animal testing also works on humans, so while we tested on animals and it worked for animals, you might as well flip a coin as to whether it will benefit people.

It is unethical to sentence 100 million functioning animals to life in a laboratory cage and cause them pain, loneliness, and fear. According to a study from Peta, 88% of stillbirths in humans are caused by drugs which passed animal tests. It is obviously clear that the use of animal testing is unsatisfactory and should no longer be legal to allow the suffering of innocent animals.

So researchers can study the effects of treatments or genetic manipulation over a whole lifespan, or across several generations, which would be infeasible using human subjects. Mice and rats are particularly well suited to long-term cancer research partly because of their short lifespans. They are also one of the best breeding animals in the world because there reproduction time takes only two to three weeks. There litters consist of 8 to twelve mice and once they are two weeks old they are ready to be breeded with each other. That makes them an easy target for scientist and researchers. Who would want to stick needles and dissect a cute and harmless animal.

Unfortunately, no form of animal testing is illegal no matter how painful or cruel the

Animals endure so much pain and suffering when being tested on. In some cases, animal testing can be deadly or lead to serious side effects that will forever stick with the animal that was tested on. Animals hardly ever, to never benefit from testing. In research and testing, animals are subjected to experiments that can include everything from testing new drugs to infecting with diseases, poisoning for toxicity testing, burning skin, causing brain damage, implanting electrodes into the brain, maiming, blinding, and other painful and invasive procedures (NEAVS). It can include protocols that cause severe suffering. Also, can’t forget about the restricted living conditions where animals are forced to live in an unhealthy habitat out of their own element during the testing period. Animals in labs suffer not only pain from protocols, but also severe stress from day-to-day laboratory life. They spend their lives in barren cages, unable to make choices or express natural behaviors. Most never experience fresh air or sunshine, only bars and concrete. Although most think that the Animal Welfare Act protects animals from abuse, it is a common misconception that the AWA protects animals against abuse and harm in the laboratory or in other areas of commerce. This is not true. According to the National Anti-Vivisection Society the AWA regulates the use of animals in research and outlines standards for their care, it does not protect

To those who aren’t animal lovers, it is understandable that they would not have much of an opinion on this. But, these animals that are being tested are receiving “Cruel and Unusual punishment” and it is not leading to cures for serious illnesses. So, to those who are animal lovers, it can seem very wrong that a dog or cat, which could be part of a family, is being killed for no purpose. Animals have about 95% of the same genes humans do. So, although this sounds really close, it is not close enough to develop effective drugs for human use after testing them on animals. Humans do not have fur and four legs, and no animal can talk, feel, and understand. Find another source for this para.

A long time of debates go back and forth on the rights of all animals with further argument or debates, do humans have the right to use animals on medical testing and lab use? There are several issues that can be placed in this argument this research will acknowledge four important topics in the rights of animal testing. Is it right to use animals for testing? Is it right to compare animal DNA to human DNA in these animal experiments? Is it right to use real animals instead of computers to generate results? Is it right to state animals are being protected and cared for while giving toxins to make them sick? Therefore, the question needs to be asked if animals should be used for scientific experiments in labs all across the globe.

The animal experimentation is very difficult issue with a lot of people feeling very strongly of it, we are use the animals for the experimentation in different way, one of most big problem is for test the cosmetics, the images of animals with things put in their eyes for so we are able to look a bit better make many people very angry. Is it necessary?

Animal testing is also known as animal experimentation is the act of testing drugs, chemicals, cosmetics and acid on animals such as; dogs, cats, rats, mice, ferrets, hamsters and monkeys for many purposes. Today I will be focusing on cosmetics. Cosmetic companies create makeup, lipstick, foundation, blush, highlighters etc. All of these products are tested on animals before use on humans and I believe that this is wrong and should be banned in all countries.

Animals do not suffer from the same diseases that us humans have, for example curing heart failure induced by cutting a dogs aorta will not help to cure heart failure caused by a build-up of cholesterol in human arteries. We waste animal lives everyday and for what? 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. And of the small percentage of drugs approved for human use, half end up being relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in tests on animals. This makes it extremely dangerous to humans, because animal testing is not dependable, it can cause serious side effects to humans that weren’t an issue to the animals during testing.

We eat meat, we use woollen clothes. Sometimes we buy pets, such as-cat, puppy, bird etc. as our hobby. Zoo was our favourite place when we were child. We pass our time watching various types of animals in National Geography channel. After all these, we never give our attention to what impact they have for our activities. There is always a question about ‘’animal rights’’. Though both human and animal are the creation of God, human being never faces that much argument about having rights but animal does. After studying on this topic, I understood that Most of the argument goes against having animal rights. There are less right preserved for non-human being in environmental ethics.

Animal testing is cruel and inhumane to the animals. We are force feeding them. Forced inhalation. And also, we sometimes are depriving them of food and/or water. This is unfair to the animals who don’t even know what is happening to them.

We may be killing animals, but it is better than human. If we couldn’t test the medicine then we won’t know if it works and then we could never make any more different cures for other illnesses, like cancer.Without animal testing a lot of people would not have jobs, because they could not test.

However, “the majority of animal experiments do not contribute to improving human health” ("Experiments on Animals: Overview" n.d.). Research found in animal testing does not aid humans and diseases that are induced in animals are not identical to those in humans. The “former National Cancer Institute Director Dr. Richard Klausner said ‘We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans,’” and Dr. Elias Zerhouni

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 now laws to protect these species in India (DeMello, 2012).