Animal testing (noun. The use of animals in research and development projects for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods, drugs or cosmetics.); It is something we never have to imagine going through, so why should animals? Animal testing should be illegal. Firstly, animal testing is unnecessary, cruel, and inhumane. Secondly, animals do not accurately represent human bodies, so test results may be inaccurate. Lastly, there are many other methods of deeming product safety that do not involve inflicting harm on any animals, making animals testing completely unnecessary. Despite all these facts, vivisectors (those who engages in the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation.), …show more content…
This horrendous process is not only cruel but inhumane. Defenseless animals are seized from their natural habitats and confined to barren cages; socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized. Ask yourself this, is murder moral? Is torture? No! Murder and torture are criminal offenses. Despite this, each year, over 100 million animals including frogs, cats, dogs, mice, rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, fish, monkeys, and birds to name a few, are abused and killed in United States laboratories. For what? Medical training, biology lessons, curiosity-driven experiment, and chemical, food, drug, and cosmetics testing. In the moments before their deaths, these helpless animals are forced to inhale toxic fumes, others are immobilized for hours, some have holes drilled into their skulls or their spinal cords crushed, and others have their skin burned off. If these atrocious acts were performed outside the laboratory, they would be considered a felony, yet vivisectors inflict torture on animals every day without any legal questioning. Call it medical research and you can get away with murder. Animal testing is animal killing, therefore, it should be illegal. Some may argue that animals are not humans, so we have no reason to care about them. You say animals are not humans, yet still, they are used to test human products. Animals do not use shampoo and Windex, so why should they be involved in the
Picture yourself in a testing laboratory; needles, drugs, and knives pointed in your direction with you having no idea what’s going on around you, this is how animals everyday are treated, we have to stop this now! Millions of animals are killed in laboratories everyday with no chance to object to what the testers are about to do to them. Animals feel as much pain as humans do so why does it make it okay to test on them when they are so alike to humans? Every day people test makeup, shampoos, and medicines on animals, the strange thing is that animals have different skin, hair, and internal organs than humans have. Since the animals have different internal organs than humans only 5-25% of the testing results are agreeable between animals
Millions of animals suffer due to effects of testing they must endure. This testing is usually done unethically and causes major harm. It’s wrong to harm animals for the sake of testing products for society. Furthermore, animals are living creatures just like humans and should not be treated differently. While testing animals may be cheaper, it is morally wrong and causes many harmful side effects in animals.
Animal testing has been around since the third and fourth centuries BC, when it was performed by Greek philosopher-physicians. However, it is unknown when people began to question this process. In today’s society, the idea of testing products on animals has become more and more controversial with numerous groups being created and becoming even more vocal. While people will decide for themselves where they stand in this argument, I would hope that most would agree that animal abuse is wrong. So, if animal abuse is wrong and animal testing can be, and usually is, much more painful and severe than animal abuse; why can’t people agree on the subject of animal testing? However, the argument for animal testing is also legitimate. Animal testing
Over 100 million animals get burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in United States labs every year. Animal experimentation or commonly known as animal testing, is where scientists test their chemicals and products on animals to make sure it is safe for human use. Animal testing should be used because it's not only harming the animals it's costing a lot of money and animal lives.Animal testing should not be used because it harms the animals. Some tests involve killing pregnant animals to test on their fetuses. ¨Many of the tests performed on animals in the name of science, opponents maintain, are downright barbaric, rendering their subjects damaged and disfigured.¨ (Animal testing: Is animal testing morally justified?)With the amount of tests being performed
Did you know that the shampoo you use was probably forced down the throat of a rabbit, cat, or maybe even a dog? Each year, millions of animals are used to test how safe and effective products, such as cosmetics, are. They are genetically modified, force-fed harmful chemicals, blinded, scalded, and maimed. How could one not object to this awful cruelty? Animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, unnecessary, inaccurate, and expensive.
Is cruelty to animals the only way? Animal cruelty is unacceptable, unfair, and needs to be stopped right away. It has increased in the past thousands of years and many groups like ”Animal Welfare Advocates” have been working hard to end brutal and suffering experiments. Animal testing is cruel, unfair and animals are just as important as any other life on this earth so people should protect them, they can find alternative ways to test products, and it is not always the same reaction between animals and humans.
“The greatness of the nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Throughout the world, right under the human nose, millions of innocent and helpless, animals are being tortured and murdered. They are used for product testing as well as to put into products without consumer knowledge. These defenseless animals are deprived of respect and are victimized to an extent where it becomes unbearable to watch. There are many organizations that are trying to fight for animal rights. However, these organizations struggle with is because there is no legislation in the United States to combat animal testing. Even though it is not against United States regulations, animal testing should be outlawed because of its harmful and cruel effects.
Firstly, during all the experiments, animal are deprived from food, their DNA is mutated, their brain is damaged, and in the end, they are murdered in many gruesome ways: poisoning, lethal injection, suffocating, etc. Each year, approximately 100 million animals in these kinds of experiments die just in the USA. It is an enormous and fascinating number. The major problem of this entire testing is that 94% of them fail. Thus, all of the animals’ lives are just wasted. It is quite shocking that nobody is taking any proper actions regarding this issue. Also, it is certain that animals also have a conscience, emotions and feelings like human. Experiencing this kind of suffering and agonizing pain would be unimaginable for any person. However, because it is an animal and it doesn’t have a lingual ability, the inflicting pain is acceptable and tolerable. It
"Animals in labs are routinely mutilated and subjected to physical and psychological torment every day of their lives. Animals are frequently restrained and cut open without painkillers. Much of this torture is legal." According to Association for assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC). Animal testing seems the same way as abusing an animal because the test animals do not just physically get hurt the animals also get mentally hurt and, most of the time stay traumatized because of the damage these experiments have caused them. Just in the U.S over 100 million animals are killed because of animal testing. Most of the animals that get killed every year include birds, frogs, rats, dogs and cats, Guinea pigs and many more. As you can see in the animals I just listed many of them are pets that most of us have in our households. All these animals are abused and killed for a new lip gloss that is sold for more than these animals lives. While many believe that animal testing shall stay legal because of the advantage animal testing gives to humans, others believe that the animal testing should be banned and illegal because of the damage it has done to the innocent
Many people have animals around the world, whether it be dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, even horses and llamas, and they all love them very much. A lot of people will do anything to ensure the comfort and safety of their companion and friend. Many people may be shocked and horrified to find that over 100 Million animals die each year due to animal testing. This essay will go into more detail about some reasons why people might find animal testing wrong, and some reasons why a lot of people see it as a good thing. While most believe that animal testing is important for medical research, some people think it is wrong because it’s been shown that less than 8% of all animal test results actually contain profitable data and that over 100 million
In discussions of animal rights, one controversial issue has been animal experimentation. On the one hand, advocates argue that animals have the right to not be exploited for experiments. On the other hand, skeptics contend that animal experimentation is necessary in order to improve human health. My own view is that animal experimentation is unnecessary and should stop as there are other alternatives that may replace it.
Right this second, millions of animals are in cold empty cages waiting to be put out of their pain and misery. Around the country, animal testing trials are going on right now, as we speak. Many do not consider that those animals that are tested on are not taken care of properly, when animals are in pain and scared, they give off negative results, but most importantly, people and animals are different, which creates inaccurate results. PETA is an organization to help protect animals against cruelty. On their website it states, “The only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories—the Animal Welfare Act—allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and brain-damaged” (“Animal testing is bad”, n.d., para. 21). We do not protect our animals as well as we should, but on top of that, these animals
2.73 million experiments were done in the 12 months of 2002 and no pain relief is used for many animals after painful tests (Gale). Animal Testing has become a growing concern and it needs to stop. Humans can use human simulators, they can research on human volunteers, and can use computer modeling to help stop animal testing. As a result of animal testing, innocent animals are dying; therefor a ban is necessary.
Millions of animals suffer through stressful and unnecessary tests every year. Numerous examples indicate that these experiments are wasteful, cruel, and ridiculous. In one study, pregnant rabbits were given cocaine and their offspring received shocks in order to study maternal drug use. In another study, cats were shot in the head to show how this type of wound would impair their breathing.