Animal Testing Is Wrong

Animal testing is wrong and it is cruel to animals. Each year about five million dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, monkeys, and other animals die in lethal dose tests performed in many states around the United States. During a lethal dose test, the experimental substance is forced into the animal’s throats or is pumped into their stomachs by a tube, sometimes causing death by stomach rupture or from the

Imagine being locked up in a cage having chemicals rubbed, injected and force fed into you. Over 1,000,000,000 animals per year suffer rashes, cuts, burns, infections, loneliness and even death. This is due to animal cruelty or testing. It should be illegal to test on animals. You should be able to adopt an animal after the lab is thru with it.

Thousands of each species are killed every year against their will due to animal testing. Most people are under the misconception that animal experiments enhance human cures due to the media, experimenters, and universities which exaggerate animals’ potential and the role they have played in past medical advancements. Researching thoroughly on websites, books, articles and organizations, I will prove the common misconception that animals are needed for human advancement to be incorrect. Animal testing is proven to hurt humans directly and misleading animal experiments causes humans to dispose of cures.

“Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in the United States from animal testing” (Experiments on, 2017). These animals are harmed or even killed more than half of the time that they are experimented on. These harmless animals are taken and forced into captivity for different kinds of testing from day to day. They are forced to stay in cages all day long and only get to eat what they are given based on testing for that day. Animals are just like people; they need to exercise, have interactions, be able to eat when hungry, etc., but laboratories take away these privileges from the animals by trapping them in the lab all day. Animal testing is wrong and harmful in many ways.

Some people argue that animal testing is necessary for scientific advancements to find cures and treatments. This is true, vaccines for polio and hepatitis B were used on animals and were successful. Thalidomide was also used on pregnant animals and it was found to cause birth defects. This is an understandable concern, however animals had to suffer for these advancements and it’s inhumane. According to the U.S Department of Agriculture, in 2010 97,123 animals

“Animals that develop toxic injury of disease during testing experience significant pain”(stokes). This is why so many animals are dying because they just have such a hard time dealing with the pain and suffering. “ Estimated 2,000 new chemicals and thousands of other chemical products undergo safety tests with animals to determine whether the substance is toxic, lethal, or causes allergic reactions”(Stokes). There are just so many strong and harsh chemicals going into this little animal's body and it is so unsafe for them. “A 1950’s sleeping pill caused 10,000 babies to be born with severe deformities and was tested on animals” (Newswire, “pros and cons”) This just goes to show that animal testing takes a while to reach the goal and is not always accurate. “ Seventy million animals are used in this manner in the U.S. every year” (Collin 1273). Animals are being hurt everyday and it is out of their control and it's even unfair because they do not have a

First and foremost, animal testing is harmful to the animals. In statistics from the USDA, they state that over 100 million animals are killed in the U.S. annually from animal testing (USDA). George Dvorsky said, “it was a call to reduce the severity of distress, pain, and fear experienced by many lab animals.” (Dvorsky).

Animal testing is often cruel and inhumane. The Draize eye test, used by cosmetics companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoos and other products, involves rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested. We do this to test if a mascara is harmful or not is dreadful. The fact that this has ever been allowed is nauseating. Another example of cruel treatment is when scientists use MPTP to replicate Parkinson's disease in a Marmoset. If we don’t want to go thru the experiment ourselves, then why should we have a living being that shares 99% of it’s DNA go thru it. We need to enforce the rules we have on animal testing or not this will continue

Cosmetics tested on animals sometime don't work on humans. People have different views on animal testing some agree with it. There are also people against animal testing. Animals dying because they are used for testing cosmetics. Animals used for animal testing are being treated poorly. Due to animal testing, animal are being killed,tortured for cosmetics for humans when most of the time they don’t work.

"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

First, animal testing is very harmful to animals. 100 million animals are harmed or killed because of testing. For example, the poor animals are given painful tests until they are not needed any more or eventually die. Just because they don't test things on humans, doesn’t mean that they should be doing it to animals. Animals testing is harmful to innocent animals.

“Right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs and other animals are locked inside barren cages in laboratories across the world. They languish in pain, ache, with lonliness, and long to be free. Instead, all they can do is sit and wait in fear for the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them”. This statement about animal testing is from PETA.org. I have a strong belief about this topic so I am arguing the point that animal testing is cruel and a waste of time and money.

Animals are thought of sweet loving pets that are cared for. People never think about what goes on in the outside world and what people do to animals. Animals are getting tested on everyday and they are losing their lives because of animal testing. Animal testing is taking an animal and testing all different products including beauty products, medicine and many more. Laboratory animals are almost tortured to death to extract information for the ultimate welfare of the human beings, us doing tests on these animals for our benefits is completely justifiable as humans it is our responsibility to treat them well.

Would you like to be locked up in a cage, with people doing experiments on you every single day. I bet your answer was no, and you know no one would, but animals don't have a choice. Animal testing has existed for a long time. It started in the 1780’s and ever since, It has not stopped, it just got worse. Animals should not be used for for scientific research, because there are now alternative methods for testing,also animals are poor test subjects, and it’s cruel and inhumane.

Each year in the United States, nearly seventy million animals are killed and hurt in the name of science. “Animal testing is wrong and downright mean”. Innocent animals should not be treated harshly for the