Animal Testing And Animal Research

Should we be testing on animals? This topic is important because there is a lot of debate around it. Some people say it's cruel and inhumane, and that animals have rights too. On the other hand, there are people who say it has a positive outcome because we have discovered new ways to cure fatal diseases and improve our medicines. Currently, people still use animals for medical and cosmetics testing. About 26 million animals are used for testing each year. Animal testing has been going on since about the 1850s, although the treatment of animals has greatly improved throughout the years. People still disagree about whether or not it is ethical. Some of the ways that animals are being used less for testing include: the use of computer programs to see if products can be used on humans, as well as people donating their own skin to be tested on. I think this topic is important because I care about the issue and people still have many strong emotions about it. I have also always wondered how animal testing happens and why people do it. Do animals have rights? Some people say “If an individual is a member of a species that lacks the capacity of free moral judgement, then he or she does not have moral rights. All non-human animal species lack the capacity for free moral judgement. Therefore, non-human animals do not have rights.” The U.S. law allows animals to be burnt, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, drowned, addicted to drugs, and even brain damaged. On top of this,

Stated by Mahatma Gandhi, “The greatness of the nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Medical research on animals is an effective way for scientist to test different medical discoveries and experiment before using them on humans to check their result. This technique has been used for centuries dating back to people such and Aristotle and Erasistratus. What exactly is medical research on animals? When we take a deeper look into the experiment that are preformed we can conclude that animals are a living model of humans in these laboratories. It is a necessity to harm and test animals with new drugs in order to market them in the medical industry to aid human illnesses. In order to better comprehend and regulate drugs one must understand what medical research on animals is described as and its benefits to pharmaceutical companies for humans. Exposure to the trials and tribulations that animal testing reveals how important it is for scientists to understand the negative effects they contribute to an animal’s welfare and life. In contrary animal testing has been used to save many human lives from consuming or using a drug that could have caused them life threatening illnesses.

A rabbit lives its life trapped in a laboratory. It doesn’t get fresh air and has different products tested on it every day. The product can make the rabbit go blind or cause its skin to burn, but there is nothing the rabbit can do about it. This is what happens to animals every day from cosmetic companies who test their products on animals. According to Cruelty Free Kitty (2017), over 30 cosmetic companies continue to use animal testing to improve their products. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2017), “the agency has consistently advised cosmetic manufactures to employ whatever testing is appropriate and effective for substantiating the safety of their products.” This means that if the company believes animal testing is the best option for their product they are allowed to do it. Testing cosmetics on animals is cruel and inhumane, and people should avoid using products that test on animals.

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.

Imagine being poked and prodded with a needle, all to test for a new drug against

The animal welfare act was signed into law in 1996. It is the only federal law in the united states that regulates the treatment of animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. By definition animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research,

Animal testing began after consumer products caused harm to the buyer. In 1930, a mascara called Lash Lure, blinded many women who used it. In 1937, one hundred people died from a new cough syrup called Elixir (Why do companies test cosmetics or other products on animals? 2013). These are two occurrences that pushed people to use animals for testing product safety. Today, the use of animals has expanded into experiments benefiting the medical field. These experimental animal studies are beneficial to the safety of humans, but animals are sacrificed in the process. Animals are usually killed and dissected at the end of the tests to determine the safety or efficacy of a product or drug. Although animal testing has increased the understanding of medical and consumer issues, the ways these discoveries were made are fatal. As a utilitarian, one needs to consider the benefits and harms of animal testing and discover if they find it ethical. A utilitarian usually would not support animal testing because not everyone included is experiencing the best balance of happiness over unhappiness. The issue of animal testing brings up the question of what animal’s rights are.

Over 26 million animals are tortured and tested on every year, in the United States alone. Most are used for testing medical treatments, which people for animal testing say has saved countless numbers of lives, but how many has it destroyed in the making? Although testing on animals has lead to major scientific breakthroughs, the way in which they reach them is incredibly inhumane. We having the ability, should try our best to stop this wide spread animal testing because the tests are inhumane, the animals are abused during the tests, and the results can be achieved in other ways.

Animal testing has been a controversial topic for discussion for centuries. Major conflicting concerns that include, but are not limited to the morals and values of society today, are in my opinion where these issues stem from. For instance, some people seem to believe that by using animals for testing and experimentation is unethical and violating animals rights. Nonetheless, a cosmetic company using rabbits to test the irritancy levels of it’s products eyes for the purposes of making nonirritating cosmetics for women who will use such products in my opinion, is necessary for human safety and usage. I understand that the testing process may be painful to the rabbits, and understand why some may believe this is an act of animal abuse or

Whether you want to acknowledge it or not most of you have known about animal testing for a while now, but never fully understood it.

Do you believe that an animal’s life has the same equal significance as a Humans life? Animal testing is used to develop lifesaving medications and treatments for humans. The research has been developing over hundreds of years. There has been many medical treatments that have benefits human life immensely. This is including cancer and HIV drugs, insulin, vaccinations and many antibiotics. On the other hand, there are many people opposed to animal testing. They believe that it is cruel and inhumane to use animals since there are many harming side effects and millions of animals die from the testing. There are a lot of down sides to animal testing and I do agree that the practices may not be completely safe for the animals but

Imagine being poked and prodded with a needle, all to test for a new drug against

Animal testing has been an issue for years. From hearing ads on the news to seeing protests on the streets, most American citizens know what animal testing is. It has always been a problem for us as humans. But not only is it just a problem, it is a cruel, harsh and almost absolutely pointless one. Everyday, animals are subjected to painful and harsh tests that hardly even work. Most of these inhumane tests

The Animal Welfare Act was originally created on August 24, 1966 by president Lyndon B. Johnson, but has been edited and revised 7 times since the original act was passed. This act consists of regulations on the amount of testing, transport, research and exhibition that can be used on the animals. The dealers of these animals must also have a license to do so. The Animal Welfare Act states that they will be treated in “Transportation, sale, purchase, housing, care, and the people handling them for research.”

Testing and analyzing has played an important part of science and history; scientific researchers are able to study and research new diseases that arise on animals or humans—by getting precise research on medications or new experiments using live animals. Animal testing is any specific experiment testing used for scientific research, causing animals forcefully to undergo for a particular result, “An estimated 100 million animals are exploited in biomedical, aeronautic, automotive, military, agriculture, and cognitive research”( Animal Legal Defense Fund ), many of these animals are exposed to excessive pain and cruelty—forcefully injecting harmful toxins, surgically removing organs, or exposing to radiation. In 2010 roughly 25 million rats