Essay on Animal Testing

Animal Testing is when people use animals in experiments, to test their reaction to what is being tested. The range of animals used in testing is from tens of millions to more than a hundred million used annually. There has been much debate about this topic, because, animals are the most reliable sources to use, especially mice, because we share 95% of our genes with them, which makes them the most common animals to use. Although, many people think animal testing is crude and inaccurate science, but the other hand is, would we rather use humans?

From when you are a baby to when you are an adult animal testing is used in your everyday products. From the Pampers you put on as a baby and the Johnson and Johnson you are washed with. To when you are older the Febreeze, Sunsilk, and Gillette you use.( Companies That do Test on Animals) Animal testing surrounds you in every act of life. “The guess is around 100 million animals are used worldwide in animal testing.” (Animal Rights) Animal testing is rooted from natural curiosity. How the insides of a living organism operate and look is an interesting idea. Because of the fact that dissection of humans was illegal by the Roman Church, animals were the second best option for knowledge of living organisms. (Animal Testing) The debate

Do you know that the lipstick that we use to make ourselves look better but blinded millions of innocent animals? Do you know that the perfume we use to make ourselves smell better but poisoned millions of innocent animals? Do you know that the medicine we had to make ourselves feel better but killed millions of innocent animals? Animal testing is the ‘ugly secret of beauty industry’ and ‘darkness portion in medical field’.

Animal testing does not accurately predict possible reactions humans might have to animal tested drugs or cosmetics. ProCon.org says that 94% of drugs successful in animal testing fail during human trials. A drug released in 1999, called Vioxx, was tested and showed a positive effect on the hearts of mice, but ended up causing 27,000 heart attacks and cardiac deaths before being withdrawn from the market. A study by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS, observed inflammatory conditions in ill humans, and experimented with 150 drugs, all of which were successful in animal tests, and found that none of them were successful in humans. A reason why animal testing is so inaccurate is because humans are very different. Despite having similar DNA to several animals, humans and animal test subjects differ in bone structure, organ size, and react in different ways to drugs that have been tested on animals. Paul Furlong, Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging at Aston University, said that "it's very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we're trying to achieve in the human.” With 94% of our drugs failing during human tests, Furlong is, with no doubt, correct. Thomas Hartung, Professor of evidence-based toxicology at Johns Hopkins University also stated that “we are not 70 kg rats.” A final failure in the accuracy of animal tested drugs is that because animal

To support or not support animal testing practices has been a long debated topic. Animals have been used in medical and cosmetic tests since the 1900s leading to numerous medical treatment breakthroughs and ensuring the safety of everyday products we use. Recently animal advocate groups have called for the abolishment of animal testing, causing a divide on whether or not to continue animal testing. In order to keep innovating new solutions for diseases that plague our communities and loved ones, allowing the use of animal testing to end preventable tragedies must occur.

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Animal testing is a horrible event that occurs worldwide, killing and deforming millions of animals each year. (Pathos/Anger + Amplification) Animal testing is a monstrosity, which is done by monsters. (Aphorism) Testing on animals is unnecessary, cruel and unreliable (Thesis + Understatement). Mice, rats, primates and even cats and dogs are forced to live in cold, dark cages. Having these animals secluded in small cages is like having humans sit in a small room without any contact with the outside world, only allowed to sit there and stare at the wall for hours on end. (Simile) These animals are used to develop treatments, determine toxicity

Every day, animals such as rabbits, chimpanzees, and mice take part of medical experimentation. “Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans. The United States and Gabon are the only two countries that allow experimentation on chimpanzees.” (The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada). What people don’t understand is that these animals contribute to medical discoveries regarding human health. Animals should be used for medical experimentation because they contribute to many cures and treatments that have saved lives, their genetic material appears to be similar to those of humans, they are similar to human beings in many ways, animals are the only organisms other than humans who we can experiment on, and the animals themselves benefit from the result of animal testing.

Aleesha Bender Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the society of animal testing. Central Idea: I will discuss the history behind animal testing, the advantages of animal testing, and the disadvantages of animal testing. Introduction I. Attention: Bonzo is a 2 month old, Rhesus Macaque breed monkey. He was born in an experimental laboratory, and after just a few short days of being born he was ripped away from his mother’s arms into the hands of the experimenters who would now be his only family.

Animal testing, as previously mentioned, is not as reliable as it is made out to be. It is extremely difficult to replicate the complexity of a disease in humans and translate it to an animal through artificial induce it into an animal. Even if the disease is successfully replicated animals often don't react the same to medications as humans do (Akhtar, 1). The best example of this is that of Thalidomide, which despite animal testing caused deformations in babies born from women who took this drug. After the incident, producers retested the drug on animals, still not finding said deformities in any of the animals it was tested on (Greek, 1). In the article “How Reliable is Animal Testing” Author C Ray Greek makes the statement “An animal that responds like humans to one medication will not necessarily respond the same way to another medicine”, which was the case in the incident with the Thalidomide. This oversight when testing animals can lead to unforeseen fatalities and did lead to the deformation and in many cases death of thousands of babies affected by Thalidomide (Greek, 1). Animal testing is not only unreliable but in some cases even harmful and often does not lead to break through discoveries in the scientific field. In the article “The Flaws and Human Harms of Animal Experimentation”

Thesis statement: It is neither acceptable nor necessary to conduct experiments on animals for human purposes • Pro argument 1: Topic sentence: Animal testing is an inhumane and cruel exercise A) Animal experimentation is not ethical and it causes suffering and pain beyond measure a) Test animals are subjected to prolonged physical restraint, forced feeding, and food and water deprivation b) They are also physically hurt by intentional wounding, mutilations, intentional burning, neck-breaking, and even decapitation B) Tens of thousands of animals die every year during experiment a) Animals have the right to live their lives freely b) Insane experiments, such as lethal dose 50 • Pro argument 2: Topic sentence: There are other alternatives which can effectively replace animals as test subjects in cruel experiments A)

“Animals have been used repeatedly throughout the history of biomedical research.” (Hajar) As early as 384-258 BC by early greek physician scientists Aristotle and Erasistratus who would perform experiments on living animals. Galen (129-199/217 AD), a Greek physician of Rome was one of the greatest in the history of medicine. With some experiments made on animals he was able to advance our understanding of the anatomical structure, physiology, pathology and pharmacology. Ibn Zuhr, an Arab physician in the twelfth century Moorish Spain brought upon the idea of animal testing as a way to practice surgical procedures on animals before using any kinds of methods on humans. As history shows, man has endured and overcome many diseases and illnesses. These diseases killed many people and caused many to suffer. Most have been cured due to man’s medical research. Tests done on animals have improved the lives of many humans who would have suffered themselves. Scientists, Doctors and other

Everyday animals are being locked up in cages and are being tested on. Animals in laboratories do not provide reliable results in human beings, and are going through cruel and inhumane tests. There are also alternative methods that replace the need for the animals. Testing animals has contributed to many life savings cures and treatments, along with animals themselves benefiting from the results of the testing. Animals are also similar to humans in many ways and are appropriate test subjects. Animal testing needs to stop because every year 100 million animals die. The animals have no say in this treatment being done to them. Animals cannot be tested in a variety of human procedures despite what the benefits are.

One day, a kid named Johnny had Parkinson’s disease. But, he was cured just in time due to animal testing. Yes, animal testing saved lives, yet many people do not believe in the importance of doing testing on animal test subjects to find the effectivity of the product. However, it is way more true that animal testing is not cruel, and it should remain legal. My reasons for saying this is that animal testing has made a major impact in the medical field, animals in testing receive the highest standards of care provided by law, and finally animals and humans have a lot more in common that meets the eye, making tests accurate.

“Beauty without cruelty” is the outcry that can be heard from animal right activists around the world. The FDA does not require companies to perform tests on animals but if the cosmetic product contains chemicals that can be seen as toxins, testing becomes a necessity. There are currently thirteen safety tests that are performed on animals.