Animal Testing For Humanity

Thesis: Animal testing is a heavy topic that usually goes unnoticed. To many scientists, animal testing is beneficial and to society it is morally wrong.

Have you ever wondered why animals are used in experimentation? Each year over 100 million are killed due to experiments for biology lessons, medical training, chemical, drug, food, cosmetic testing, and curiosity driven experimentation. The better question is why? Why use animal when there are many alternatives. Animals may not be able to speak up for themselves but humans have a voice for them. Many people have participated in protest, taken surveys, and created organizations to protect animals from the cruelty.

First, according to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and others wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and “killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck breaking decapitation, or other means.” In the first place, the people in the laboratories are forcing the animals to suffer, without knowing how the animals feel. Animals have feeling too, they just can’t show it to humanity, because they are unable to communicate with human and people. Secondly, The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2010 that 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,365 primates, 5,996 rabbits, 33,562 guinea pigs, and 48,014 hamsters. Therefore, we cannot let the laboratories keep using animals to test their items and products, or else the animals will be in big danger. The amount of animals that suffered in pain in 2010 is unbelievable, we can’t let this keep going on or we’ll just lose our precious, fluffy bunnies and other poor animals to. Overall, after reading what is happening to the animals, this is cruel and not fair to the animals that are

Animal testing has been going on for years; however, few question the ethics of testing medicines that would cure human diseases on animals. Various animals being tested in labs and cruelly force them to be a host of harmful diseases negatively affect their health. Animal testing is cruel and unusual punishment and should discontinue. Animal experimentation is a subject that many know of but don’t know much about. Although it is a big topic, people still don’t pay much attention to it because of their lack of information. Experimenting is a cruel process that causes many innocent animals to suffer. Many cases of violations towards experimenting have been found as well. Testing on animals is unnecessary when laying down the

Tests that pass animals can have major effects on human’s population. In the UK 70,000 people die or are severely disabled by medical drugs that have passed animal tests(33 Reasons Why). This can show how unreliable it is and why it would not be good to use medicine that is not tested on humans. In America 106,000 people die from medical drugs (33 Reasons Why). This shows that more people in America trust this type of medication. Not only this but treatment tortures and kills animals, they can not only ruin human population but animal’s too.

Dating back to 2,500 years ago, animals have been used for research worldwide (“Should Animals Be Used”). Many of the first accounts of animal testing have been found in Greek writings (“Should Animals Be Used”). Today, the ethicality of these experiments is continually debated. Every year in the United States, approximately twenty six million animals are used for research (“Should Animals Be Used”). These tests are used to expand the knowledge of medical treatments, such as a drug’s toxicity and safety (“Should Animals Be Used”). Due to the multiple immoral practices, the world should eliminate the use of animals for research because animal testing is inhumane, there are new alternative procedures that can be utilized, and the animal

Scientists in many fields such as cosmetics, astronomy, and pharmaceutical studies use animals to test safety for humans or to see if life can survive in the dark void of the cosmos. Animals testing is not a humane way to conduct experiments as many test subjects do not live through a full trial. The extent that animals are used in scientific research is not acceptable in many cases.

. "No such Thing as Humane Animal Experimentation." The Ecologist, vol. 35, no. 1, 2005., pp.

Therefore, animals should not be used for animal research. Animals suffer emotionally experimenters waste their lives when they do nothing and they do not even improve human health. Society should get rid of animal testings because people are basically murdering these animals. They did nothing to anyone, but yet they kill them for no reason. Researchers waste their money and time on “finding cures” but yet they are killing others’ lives while they are at it. Society must figure out another way to research medical testings on

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.

Experimenting on animals is a traditional practice in many fields of science although as times have changed it is time to start question the necessity and reliability of animal experiments. Very few tests conducted on animals actually benefit people, meaning the loss of countless animal lives with no substantial benefit to humanity. According to Andrew Rowan, “In 2004, a report by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration noted that 92 percent of new drug entities were failing during human clinical trials either because the new drugs were not effective in humans (having shown promise in animals) or because they were associated with unexpected toxicity (having been demonstrated to be safe in animals)” (2015). The fact that countless experiments lead to no progress forward in terms of benefitting people it reasonable to do away with it entirely and seek alternative methods. In his article author Andrew Rowan looks forward to an age free of animal testing that will be more cost effective and beneficial than testing on animals. It is clear that if it is resulting in hardly any value to society other than trivial aspects like patience that can be achieved through less morally corrupt ways, using animals for experimentation goes against the rights they deserve to

The benefits of animal testing can be beneficial yet catastrophic at the same time. In order to see whether a product is safe for human use or to find a cure for infectious human diseases, animals seem to become expendable. Every year close to 130 million animals succumb to pain, suffering, and death worldwide as scientific experiments are conducted to dissolve humanities issues according to an article on Faunalytics. The lives of other living creatures should not be abused or sacrificed with only a portion of possible benefit to humanity, though some would disagree. Animal rights should be an important issue here as their pain and suffering is not worth benefits to humans when there are plenty of other suitable solutions to research problems.

Do you ever stop to think and realize that all humans and animals both share this world and rely on each other? “By the next minute you are reading this, 219 animals are killed in grief and pain in a US lab”(“GRIN.”). Animals play a huge role in our life in many different aspects, chickens produce eggs for us, cows produce milk for us, cats, dogs and all sorts of animals play the role of our so called pets. What many people don’t understand is that animals are being tested and mistreated all over the world to try to come up with cures for human illness. In many facilities, scientists test how toxic and lethal medicines for human illness really are. Basically they are being used as test dummies at no expense. All animal testing of medicines should be banned; even if such testing would save human lives, this process is sometimes cruel, unethical and often ineffective.

“Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ‘Because the animals are not like us.’ Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction”, said Professor Charles R. Magel. For centuries, animals have been used to help develop new medicines and to test the safety of various products. People have different views of animals; most look at animals as pets while other view animals as an advancement to furthering research. No matter what the individual perceives about animals, the reality is the same because animals are being take advantage of by research and cosmetic facilities across the world. A significant percentage of people do not realize what is happening to animals every day in laboratories; animals are suffering from the hand of humans. Even though people do get benefits from animal experimentation, but at the cost of animals going through torment and being slaughtered. The human benefits do not out weight the value of the animals’ life. For this reason, animals should no longer be a part of experiments of any kind.

The use of animals for scientific purposes, in order to better understand a particular disease, develop new medicines or to check the safety of a drug, causes a lot of conflicting reactions. Some believe that no moral problem is here; other, rushing to the opposite extreme, willing to justify violence in order to protect animals. Experiments on animals - are a huge industry. Every year, British scientists use nearly 3 million animals for research purposes. Most used for development and testing of drugs for human diseases, although each year about 17,000 animals are used for testing the safety of food additives and household chemicals. Now the number of animals exposed to similar experiences reduced. Although traditional animal experiments are gradually decreasing, new spheres of experimental studies are appeared. For example, now more and more animal are used for experiments in genetic engineering. In some cases, scientists introduce human genes into an animal. Such transgenic animals can develop the disease very similar to human one. Studying the impact of the disease on the body of transgenic animals, the scientists explain the