Animal Testing For Farm Animals

“The majority of this testing is for research into finding cures for human diseases, notably AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease” and “Common factory farming methods include confining animals in small windowless cubicles, feeding animals hormones to improve the flavor and texture of their meat and milk, and limiting exercise and interaction with other animals.” Animals are being used for the benefit of human

Ever since the beginning of human history, to the reign of the Mongols, and even to the colonization of the Americas, disease has played a role in shaping society. Its negative impacts has depopulated many cities, countries, and empires. In the distant past, it was quite difficult to avoid contagious diseases. However, in today’s society, steps have been taken to discover new effective modes of treatment through animal testing. Such testing; however, has proved to be quite a controversial issue due to ethics and its utilization of animals. Despite any objections, the use of genetically bred animals is imperative for the purpose of discovering new medications to treat various terminal diseases.

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.

Animal testing classifies as legal, sanctioned abuse. When an animal is in a lab as a test subject, there is no limit to what harm may be inflicted upon it. Over one hundred million animals go through this torture each year (PETA). These animals spend the majority of their lives in an unnatural, stressful environment, fearing what kind of thing will happen to them next. They are kept behind bars with usually no access to sunshine or fresh air, unable to act as they would if they were free (PETA). Dogs being tested on can not run around in the grass, birds can not fly around outside, and mice have no wheel to exercise on. Animals in labs go through thorough, invasive experiments, often ending in death. Many of these tests they go through

Millions of people were killed by incurable diseases, such as smallpox, rabies, et cetera before the 18th century due to lack of knowledge in developing drugs and vaccine at that time. People caught by the diseases were hopeless because they knew that no one could help them. In the mid 1800s, animal testing was introduced to drug industry by Edward Jenner (Trueman, 2002). His brilliant discovery in developing smallpox vaccine by using animals helped a lot of people and gave hope to the medical field that incurable diseases were not incurable anymore. Although he was not the first man to use animal in experiments, his success made animal testing become commonly used in drug

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.

The status of animal testing in the US and internationally are very different and therefore must be defined differently. In the United States “The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) is the only U.S. federal law that covers animals in research. (The federal Public Health Service Policy on the Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals covers animals in NIH-funded research through recommended policy only, not requirements. While it has the power to inspect, it relies on self-reporting.) Enacted in 1966, it regulates the care and use of animals in research, testing, teaching, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. However, the AWA provides only minimal protection for certain species while excluding others such as rats, mice, and birds bred for research—who

Smallpox has been around for a millennium, and claimed hundreds of millions of lives. Each death was tragic, but the last person to die by smallpox left behind one of the most wrenching tragedies of them all.

An estimate of 1.4 million animals die each year due to animal testing. As people we have freedom, choice, and the right to live, however animals have a right to live in a world without suffering just as much as we do. Animals just like humans have emotions, thoughts, and feelings, so what makes it right to test on animals any more than to perform tests on humans? The benefits of testing on animals has still not been proven as the treatments that show promise in animals rarely work on humans. There are also many other options for testing techniques that we can use without performing harmful tests on animals, and finally it's entirely unethical. There are many alternatives overall so it is really still considered ethically right to take the freedom of animals just because we want to do research. Animal testing should no longer have a place in our modern day world.

Before this chapter gets into how animals are tested, you should know about the purposes of animal testing. Most of the times, people study how the animal's behavior or body has changed after giving them any range of things. These can include radiation, toxic gases, and more harmful substances. “Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year.” (DoSomething.org) Toxicity testing, determining the degree to which a substance can damage a living or nonliving organism, often leaves animals dead before the test is even finished. Some irritation tests include seeing how the chemical goes through the layers of cells through the eyes and skin. Acute toxicity testing is usually one test or a few in a short period of time. This leads to high dose amounts which gives much worse side effects inclusive of abdominal pain, seizures, paralysis, and more. After the animals are tested, they stay in cages without fresh air or seeing light. One of the worst parts is that after all the testing, the product might not even be suitable for humans. All these animals have a brain in which they can feel pain and emotion. Us humans are animals too, why should we do this to our

The definition that the Humane Society International gave for animal testing is performing procedures on living animals for further research in biology, diseases, effectiveness in new medicines and house held products. There are varies animals that can be used for these tests such as; mice, rats, dogs, non-human primates, and rabbits. Every year 100 million animals die from being a victim of animal testing. To me that is an absurd amount of animals dying. Some of the known testing labs animals could be sent to are Covance, Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratory, and Charles River. These three labs are known to have the most painful experiments, they are also known for having primates flown into their labs.

“Many medical treatments have been made possible by animal testing, including cancer and HIV drugs, insulin, antibiotics, vaccines and many more” (Murnaghan 1).

An increasing number of activists believe that animals have rights. However, this idea is somewhat controversial because animal activists look down upon the poor treatment of animals. They have a fear that animal testing is causing abuse and suffering to the helpless animals. Animal testing is a fairly serious matter because of all of the malfunctions and harm that leads to animal suffrage. The types of animals being used, such as rats, mice,rabbits, and chips are selected specifically for the test that is being performed. The outcomes of the test, depends on which animal is being tested and what it is being examined for. Common tests being used on animals include, medicine for human diseases, cosmetic products and their reactions, and students in training utilizing animals in educational laboratories.

Animal Testing is a issue. Because people use bad tests on animals so people do not test it on humans. Animal testing if you say it is wright well you are wrong. The only testing should be on humans. I hate that people do that to animals and some tests even kill the creature. The only animal that should be tested on is the alligator or a crocodile.

“Scientists told to stop wasting animal lives,” this is an article from The Guardian, written by Robin McKie. It addresses the issues about using animals to test products for us to use such as, medicines to try help treat serious illnesses and also for veterinary purposes. Animal testing is carried out by scientists to also test items we use daily such as makeup but this article is not talking about those particular issues. This article is discussing about undergoing new guidelines for those that are carrying out research using animals. The Research Council UK say they are now making scientists show their work will not only produce physiological understanding but will also generate statistically sturdy data. If not they will end up losing their funding.