Weldon 1
Animal Testing
Introduction
Thesis Statement: Animal testing is wrong because it is inhumane, costly, and unpredictable.
I. Animal testing is inhumane A. Torture B. Type of testing C. Effect on the animal
II. Animal testing is costly A. The cost of testing B. The cost of research C. What else we could be spending money on
III. Animal testing is wasteful and unpredictable A. Mass Murdering of animals B. Endangered species C. If it works on animals it may not work on humans
Conclusion
Weldon 1
Hunter Weldon
Mrs. Smith
1st Period
1/6/14
Animal Testing Animal testing has been a controversial topic for many generations throughout the world. People against animal testing say that animal testing is cruel and inhumane and
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Animals are also tested with “Repeated force feeding tactics” (11 Facts about….). Repeated force feeding involves forcing animals to eat certain substances over and over just for observation. What is the point in this? Another experiment performed on animals is killing pregnant animals and examining and experimenting on the fetuses. Killing a mother and killing a baby that hasn’t even been born yet is wrong and it should be stopped. Killing an animal for no reason is cruel. That’s a life you are taking away. Just imagine if it was you. Animals should only be killed for food, not to be used for testing. Animals can be burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused as a result of testing. And the list could go on forever. The way animals are being mistreated and tested on should be against the law. There is a different ways to do research other than killing and abusing animals. There are many alternate test that scientist can use to do there research without harming animals. Alternative test are defined as test that use the three “R’s”, a test that replaces a procedure that uses animals with one that doesn’t, a test that reduces the number of animals used in a procedure, and test that refine a procedure to cause less pain to the animal.(11 Facts about…) Animal testing causes millions and millions of dollars to go down the drain each year. It’s a shame to see American Tax payer’s money go to no use. The National Institute of Health holds back 14 to 16 billion
People do not realize how much pain the animals go through for just one experiment. People say "oh they are just animals they do not feel anything." Yes, they do. They can feel the pain when they are being injected with needles and screws in their heads. Animals are like us except they can not talk. They have a heart and a mind just like a human does. This is not fair to punish animals for society's needs. Animals should be treated with respect from humans just like how humans respect each other. Animal testing should be illegal because in order to do these experiments it cost lots of money, results are not always accurate, and it is animal cruelty.
History---- An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. Animals are used to develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications, check the safety of products destined for human use, and other biomedical, commercial, and health care uses. Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 BC.In the 1940s, Jonas Salk used rhesus monkey to cross-contamination studies to isolate the three forms of the polio virus that affected hundreds of thousands yearly.Salk's team created a vaccine against the strains of polio in cell cultures of rhesus monkey kidney cells. The vaccine was made
How badly are animals tortured during animal testing? Animal testing is going on around the world, and they are being needlessly abused and killed during the testing of products. People are making millions of dollars while using these animals to test products for humans to use.
The topic of animal testing is a widely controversial topic that is discussed by many people. Some people believe that animal testing has contributed to many advancements in medical treatments and should be continued. Others believe, correctly, that animal testing is cruel and inhumane. Animals testing should be abolished because it is cruel to animals and humans are different than humans.
There are more than 115 million dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, and other mammals that suffer and die each year, but 80 percent of the lab animals used mice, rats and birds are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act, and therefore are not counted (The cruelty of Lab Animal Testing). This shows that, While us humans can go go outside whenever they want, Animals being tested on don't even have a choice too. Animal testing is like prison to animals except, none of them did anything wrong. This is important because, With all the things animal testing is doing to the poor animals they are making it worse for them not having a choice at all. “ Having these horrible conditions can mentally stress animals that can seriously affect research outcomes” (The Flaws and Human harms of Experimenting). Animals that are being experimented can’t even chose when they liked to eat, or when they want to get in or out of their cage. Animal testing has helped scientific research, but is torture to
Using helpless animals for the benefit of human beings goes back thousands of years. A common theme has been present: the use of these animals has been necessary for survival. Of late, these essential sacrifices have metamorphosed into yield-less speculations. Animal testing is wrong based on these premises: there are available alternatives to direct testing on live animals, the results acquired rom the tests are inaccurate and repetitive, and ultimately it is speciesism, which is comparable to racism and sexism. Today’s society has progressed in other aspects, it is time for in-obligatory animal testing to be abolished. Cruelty to animals is inexcusable, avoidable and thoroughly repelling.
To begin with, animal testing should not be allowed due to many species that are becoming endangered because of all the animal testing. For example, animal testing will eventually become a cycle of species extinction causing for a specific species to become very rare (customessaymeister.com). Furthermore, a rate of 100 to 1,000 species were lost a million per year. 100 million or more animals each year are brutally killed in American laboratories alone for educational purposes cosmetic testing, food products, and medical purposes (peta.org). In Addition, this means that its due to human-caused habitat and because the change of climate. Scientists who animal test do not realize that the animals feel fear
Medical testing on animals kills more than one hundred million animals every year! Animals are sometimes used in the testing of drugs, vaccines and other biological tests, and medical things, mainly to determine the safety of the product. Even though there are many other ways to test this still goes on. Many people think its the best way to test but it is not. Many many animals are tested on and few end up alive in the end. It seems like they would have stopped it by now but they have not.
I think that testing on animals is inadequate. The animals have no way of stopping it and have to suffer pain and even death.
Animal testing is something that is extremely prevalent in our world. It is crucial for any medical issues and many other day-to-day things we do and use. People, though, do not like the fact that we kill innocent animals everyday. In our society, there is a lot of animal abuse. It is sanctioned and legal to test on animals, even if that means that we harm and abuse animals. There is no limit to how much the animals are harmed because they are not protected by laws since testing is completely legal. This is an issue that is not really talked about, but needs to be discussed. Animal testing results are not an accurate predictor of the effects of many products on humans. If this is true, why do we test on them? The supporters of animal testing rely on scientific evidence and experiments to prove that the results of animal testing will benefit humanity, but the people who protest against animal testing want to protect the rights of all animals and try to find flaws with the scientific experiments being done on animals.
Imagine being strapped down to a cold table, helpless, while painful, brain damaging procedures are being performed and there's nothing that can be done. Animal testing has taken place throughout history and has been argued on whether or not it is necessary. Many people start to disagree with using animals for biomedical research. On moral and ethical grounds, animal testing is far from necessary and leads to suffering and deaths of millions of innocent animals while causing physical and mental pain, permanent damage, and reflects badly on our progressive society.
Animal testing is any scientific experiment or test, in which a live animal is forced to undergo something which will likely cause pain. Humans could choose whether or not they want to undergo painful tests, they receive benefits such as, money to compensate. However, animals have no say and end up dying. How come scientists are not placed in jail for murdering animals; however, human murderers are? Living inside a cage when you are helpless and having strangers torture you for tests is not desirable for anyone. We have come along way since 1865 in which testing on animals launched, so why are we still using unnecessary and outdated methods for approving a product. It will never be acceptable for humans to kill for our own profit. “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Once a wise man said. Just placing the word “for science,” does not mean it truly helps with science research. Animal testing is as much unnecessary as it is immoral.
1. The differences between animals and humans leads to incorrect information and test results during trials.
Testing on the animals is almost like torture to them, and inflicts pain and suffering on animals that do not deserve it. Not only are these animals forced to be taken into labs to be operated on, but they are also often harmed by both the testing and the humans performing the tests. These animals also develop “neurotic behavior,” according to Animal Testing 101 | Animals Used for Experimentation | The Issues …, such as spinning in circles, rocking back and forth, pulling out their fur, and biting themselves. The animals’ blood pressure also spikes when in the laboratories. Also, the tests are brutal and painful for the animals, despite many people saying that they are not. According to Counterpoint: Animal Testing Is Cruel and Immoral Regardless of the Benefits Associated With It, “This last reference refers to an incident uncovered in 1983 (and subsequently shut down) at the University of Pennsylvania in which 150 baboons suffered brain damage as a result of hydraulic equipment smashing against the baboons' heads to simulate whiplash (such as humans might suffer in a car accident).” These poor animals are subjected to pain that they don’t deserve; and not only does it cause them physical pain, but in some cases, mental as well. On the other hand, some people may say that animal testing is not cruel to animals and that animals are taken good care of when in
First of all, Animals rights are violated when they are used in research. A professor at North Carolina State University, Tom Regan said, “Animals have a basic and moral right to respectful treatment….. this value is not respected when animals are reduced to being tools in a science experiment.’’( qtd. in Orlans 26). Animals are lot like people; they both think, have feelings, behave, and experience pain. Because animals are like humans, they should be treated with the same amount of respect as humans. Animals are not able to give consent, therefore that is violating their rights. Most of the tests are painful, cause permanent damage or death. Animals can’t willingly sacrifice themselves for the sake of human safety. Because