Animal Testing: The Genocide of the 21st Century Somewhere, in the United States, an animal is in terror. It cowers fearfully as scientists hold it down, and a doctor grips a massive, sharp needle next to its neck, ready to inject the animal with a lethal dose of a new, experimental drug. The animal is one of 26 million other creatures facing the same, painful, fate annually (The Hasting Center). Animal testing is the downfall of humanity, a practice of humans testing chemicals, drugs, and cosmetics
Each study can cost thousands of dollars to create and because the results produced can be inaccurate, many tests are repeated multiple times. While a skin irritation test costed under seven hundred dollars to produce in 2005, other tests require almost one million dollars to create, such as the carcinogenicity test which cost over eight hundred
Animal testing is when animals are used in different tests, experiments, and studies. These tests, experiments, and studies often result in the harm and/or death of the animals. People often say the animals are used in order to benefit humans, such as making sure that products are safe and helping make advancements in medicine. When people use everyday products, most never think about how the product was determined to be safe. The animal’s involuntary sacrifice is almost never even a thought in most
I disagree with animal testing because it’s cruel and inaccurate.From the article The Grim Good Of Animal Research states “if we experimented directly on people from the beginning, treatments and cures might be discovered more quickly”. It also stated that not all findings relate to human disease. The animals are treated cruelly and immoral to use animals in this way.The article Results From Research On Animals Are Not Valid When Applied To Humans “Scientists use animals in biological and medical
United States, over seventy million animals are hurt and killed due to scientific research. Many brands have taken the pledge to become cruelty free, but there are still multiple brands that are continuing to use animals to test their products. Animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, often ineffective, can not detect for many diseases that humans are exposed to, and can be unsafe due to the differences between animals and humans. Animal testing has been seen as cruel and inhumane for
testing. Another article by PETA voiced, “We have moved away from studying human disease in humans. … We all drank the Kool-Aid on that one, me included. … The problem is that [animal testing] hasn’t worked, and it’s time we stopped dancing around the problem. … We need to refocus and adapt new methodologies for use in humans to understand disease biology in humans” (Peta). This has been the problem for years now, that problem is how inaccurate the results are. Also, how the medical groups keep on
Position/thesis statement Animal testing is a horrible way to test products because its extremely cruel to the animals used. Scientists everywhere are using animals to test there products. "There could be as high as 115,000,000 animals per year used in testing, most of them get *euthanized at the end of the experiment". According to the article this house would ban animal testing from ideabate.org. "research on living animals have been practiced since 500 B.C." Think about how many animals that have been used
believe animal testing is necessary to ensure medicines and cosmetic products are safe, alternative methods of testing, such as in vitro tests and EpiDerm, are available and should be implemented. Animal testing is the use of animals in research to determine the safety of a product. Animal testing is an outdated science while alternative, non-animal methods are rapidly becoming more effective. Laws in the United States do not require cosmetics or medicinal drugs to be tested on animals, only that
Millions of animals suffer and die unnecessarily each year as they become subjects for medical testing and other horrendous experiments. Although some people believe such activities are necessary to progress in medical research, in reality it does very little to improve human health and development. For decades, drug and chemical safety assessments have been based on laboratory experimentations involving rabbits, dogs, rodents, and other animals. Consequently, nine out of ten drugs proven safe
effective in animal tests failed to proceed to the market because they were found to be dangerous and unsafe in human trials. When it comes to animal testing, most people would like to believe that is a necessary evil, but is it? For it to be necessary, it would also have to accurate. Unfortunately, using an animal model instead of a human body is a very inaccurate indicator of how the human body will react. Because of this using animals in biomedical research results in inaccurate data, misleading