Should we be testing on animals? This topic is important because there is a lot of debate around it. Some people say it's cruel and inhumane, and that animals have rights too. On the other hand, there are people who say it has a positive outcome because we have discovered new ways to cure fatal diseases and improve our medicines. Currently, people still use animals for medical and cosmetics testing. About 26 million animals are used for testing each year. Animal testing has been going on since about
Millions of animal every year are killed by testing, shooting, and eating them. They are tested on and when killed they just throw them away like trash. When they are being tested on, they suffer, and I just can’t imagine what they go through. They have to leave their homes, family, and friends. I wanted to research this because I love animals and want to help them. I believe they shouldn’t be tested on or killed just for fun, when they are tested on they test products like makeup and medicine
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
Equality For Animals 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
Animal Testing Clorox, Johnson & Johnson, Covergirl, Colgate; all of these bands are well known and very popular. They also are four of the biggest name brands that still test their products on animals before selling them in stores. Organizations like People for Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA have been exposing and discouraging the support of these companies. This helps discourage companies to not animal test, which they should not. Companies should not test products on animals because
Animal testing is a controversial topic in today’s society, much more than it was 100’s of years ago. Testing on animals was practiced long ago, and is still practiced today. Greek writings about vivisection [the dissection of a live organism] can be found dated as early as 500 BC. At that time, in Ancient Rome and Alexandria, and later in Greece, vivisection was originally practiced on human criminals, but prohibitions on the mutilation of the human body soon arose. This caused a reliance on animals
own animals to cherish, love and fight boredom. Humans have had animals as pets for around 10,000 years. Cats were the first animal to be domesticated by humans in the Near East. But how would you feel if your pet was used for scientific testing? Even though dogs and cats are not always used for testing they are shown on the “Top 10 animals used for experiments”. The top three are flies, worms, and rats followed by rabbits, other large rodents, fish, then dogs and cats. Although animal testing is
products used in a person’s daily routine are tested on innocent animals. In some cases, people will go there entire life not acknowledging the fact the products, especially beauty items, they use underwent many trials of examination. This process is thoroughly done to be safe for humans, which can result in the deaths of several thousands of animals. Common makeup brands, such as Maybelline, Avon, and Estée Lauder, experiment on animals and do not inform users about this process. This creates numerous
Using animals in research and to test the safety of products has been a topic of heated debate for decades. According to data collected by F. Barbara Orlans for her book, In the Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation, sixty percent of all animals used in testing are used in biomedical research and product-safety testing (62). People have different feelings for animals; many look upon animals as companions while others view animals as a means for advancing medical techniques
against animal experimentation. The report begins with an introduction briefly outlining what animal experimentation refers to, introducing the three perspectives and highlighting the intention behind this investigation. The report then explores the positive and negative medical aspect of animal experimentation stating that it has resulted in vital vaccines benefitting both humans and animals, but also accepting it is not always reliable. The advantages and disadvantages of animal testing on consumer