Animal Testing Dilemmas

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There are so many products being tested on animals , from being lipsticks, shampoos, makeup, skin care etc. But have you ever wondered the side effects these animals experience while using these products? They will experience Burning, torturing, pain, hunger, thirst etc. How is living in a cage living? It's not it is just surviving.

Animal testing is a cruel way to try and develop new products. There are several other and much safer options that will get better results and potentially save up to two million animals every single year. The Animal Welfare Act is in place but only minimally protects certain animals and leaves many others, up to 95%, vulnerable to atrocious fates. The animals not protected by this act (mostly small or considered house pets) are most widely used and not related closely to humans. There are several alternative methods but they are being neglected since they are new and not being enforced because of it. A few countries and states have banned certain aspect of animal testing but others are encouraging this cruelty.

In history, animal experimentation has played a significant important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However, what many people tend to forget are the numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Each day across America innocent animals are used as test subjects for products that have little to no relevance importance. Animal testing has had many negative issues arise in society in a negative way. Debating over the animal rights movement has raised many questions and concerns for years. There is an ongoing controversy regarding if companies should stop testing their products on animals. Although animal research has been the cause of many medical breakthroughs, is it morally and ethically right to put animals in these kinds of situations? This is one of the underlying questions that must be solved before it is too late. When considering how truly reliable the results of animal test are, and the expense of testing will help bring new light to the problem. By simply passing a policy will not only address this issue, will help better products and medicine in the future.

Cohen argues that humans may morally use animals for biomedical research, the study of biological processes and disease, because animals lack rights. He defines rights as moral claims that one human can hold against another, which are bound in both law as well as in comprehension of right and wrong. As animals lack self-conscious placement in a higher ethical order with the ability to weigh needs of self against the needs of others, they therefore lack the ability to have rights. (Cohen 1986: p. 215) To support the morality of animal research, I will show how it has led to many successful treatments of disease in humans, due to the common physiology that we share with other animals. Furthermore, I will argue that the pain caused on research

Animal experimentation has been a commonly debated subject for many years, is it cruelty or science? Millions of animals die each year from animal testing. This is because of harsh ways animals are treated like by their experimenters. Animals should be free of the cruelty scientists expose them to. They have just as much sentient as humans do. Millions of animals a year are subject to being imprisoned and having terrible procedures done.

Imagine a life locked away in a cage with no form of control on your existence. It’s cold, dark, and you are scared. You don’t have a choice of what you eat, where you live, or how you are treated. You are unsure if it is day or night or what will happen to you next. You are locked away in a prison cell and you committed no crime. This is the life of a laboratory animal. Animal testing is the use of animals for scientific research purposes and experiments. It can be used for the findings of cures and medicines to testing new drugs, to understanding the behavioral psychology of the animals themselves. “Around fifty to one hundred million vertebrate animals, ranging from fish to primates, are used in experiments each year” (Lloyd). There are

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Is animal testing ethically acceptable? Is it acceptable for animals to suffer for the testing of medicine? Although there are alternatives, animal testing is by far the most productive, accurate, and beneficial form of research. Animal testing is necessary for many reasons, including to advance in medicine, to prevent harmful tests on humans, and to establish a solid research background. In this essay, the facts represented will be convincing evidence that animal testing is a necessity for advancement in the medical world.

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Many lives of animals are being used for the sake of testing, these species do not belong in laboratories, locked in a small cage or on a table with needles stuck into them. Animal testing is a phrase referred to a group of founders preforming on alive animals for many purposes of studies to find potency of new medical profits. According to Ian Murnaghsan, (2016). All performers, even the ones that are restricted as delicate, have the ability to cause the animal feel agenizing pain and suffering. Because of the amount of pain they put the animals under, they are most likely to end up getting killed or die from the unbearable abuse. There is a different amount of animals that get used for animal testing, but mostly mice, monkeys, and pigs. Shockingly,

When people hear the phrase “animal testing” they tend to have many reactions. Some think that it should not be allowed, while others think that science could not survive without it. Many advances have been made in the medical field because of animal testing, and the process of eliminating it from existence will be extremely difficult (Ericson, 2014; Daston, et al., 2015). Due to the controversy surrounding the subject people might not know all of the facts. Through our research we have found information relating to the medical benefits, ethical problems, and ways to make animal testing moral. Understanding more of the facts associated with animal testing, allows knowledgeable decisions to be made on whether or not animal testing is needed and what could be changed. When more people understand the basics of animal testing and the different arguments and questions circulating in the scientific community, changes will come faster.

Imagine a life where the only thing you ever have known and ever will know is a metal cage, white lab coats, and numerous painful tests. Millions of animals involved in animal testing live out their days, kept in small cages, forced fed chemicals, injected with drugs, and deprived of anything natural and normal. Animal testing is an inhumane process of the past that has no place in the forward thinking society of today. With continued medical breakthroughs and the development of alternatives to animal testing the outdated, cruel, and inaccurate practice should be made obsolete.

This article sums up the fact that we should move away from, but not completely get rid of animal testing. Since about the 1950’s until 2013 the public support of animal testing has dropped about 33%. That number is expected to continually drop with younger generations, not just because of compassion and ethics, but because of the scientific community striving for improvement. One of the main problems with animal testing is that while humans and other animals may be similar, they are not the same. Because of this, side effects are missed, money is wasted, and still, there is only an 8% chance of a new chemical entity being approved for humans. Even with such a small percentage, animal testing is still required. To break away from animal testing