Essay On Animal Testing

Throughout history, animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefits. However, what many people tend to forget are the millions of animals that are tortured or killed during the process of these painful, deadly experiments. Many people seem to misunderstand animal nature and the laboratory procedures and techniques that are executed on the animals. The procedures are cruel, unreliable, and harmful. Luckily there are more humane alternatives that have also proved to be less expensive.

Although animals testing help humans in many ways it can be cruel and inhuman to the animals being tested on. Depending on which lab the end up in they could be treated poorly and starved. They could be “inflicted with burn wounds and pain to test for a healing process” (Brown, 2017). This is cruel and just wrong for many reasons. “When testing to evaluate irritation caused by

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

Animal testing is a huge problem. The methods used to test on them are dangerous and cruel. To measure the toxic effects, animals are forced to swallow or inhale massive quantities of a test substance or have the chemical smeared in their eyes and on their skin. This makes the animals endure severe abdominal pain, convulsions, seizures, paralysis and extreme internal and external bleeding. These horrific things happen to the animals before they are killed and eventually die from all the chemicals and toxins put on and in them. That is why animal testing is a big problem.

Animal testing is remarkably cruel and inhumane. Animals that are used for testing are put in cages and isolated. They are usually, they are taken almost casually, housed appallingly, and denied anything close to a life (Newkirk). These animals are trapped their whole life and are stripped of their ways of life. Not to mention that within some of these laboratories, universities, and every other place that animal testing is conducted in, researchers treat animals very poorly. In one place, "workers were caught punching dogs in the face, screaming at the animals, and even simulating sex with each other while trying to inject a frightened beagle" (Newkirk). Not only do researchers do those cruel actions, but some "experimenters force-feed chemicals to animals, conduct repeated surgeries on them, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, and much more" (PETA). Some may say that this does not happen and that animals do not experience pain anymore due to new laws, like the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). But, the truth is, these "laws" do barely anything, if nothing, to help stop the cruel

The amount of pain that not even most, but ALL animals have to go through every day is sickening. In an article written by PETA they mention how “It’s unethical to sentence 100 million thinking, feeling animals to life in a laboratory cage and intentionally cause them pain, loneliness, and fear.”(PETA “Top five reasons to stop animal testing”) That is a lot of animals to be stripped from their homes and sanctioned to this punishment. A big part of animal testing too is that even though they have gotten a lot better with the conditions of animal testing, they still haven't necessarily increased in quality. Animals are still

The harm caused to animals from testing is beyond belief. Animals inhale fumes, are force-fed pesticides, are smeared with corrosive chemicals to their skin and eyes and with no voice to stop it. Those are just a few examples of what animals experience daily. In 1966 the Animal Welfare Act was put in place which was implemented to protect the animals, however loopholes have been discovered. According to People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an organization which campaigns for animals rights; mice, rats, birds and cold-blooded animals are not covered in that act. Those types of animals make up 99% of that animals that are used as guinea pigs in experiments(Animal Testing 101). With this

In the 1880’s, Louis Pasteur conducted one of the most unpleasant series of animal experiments in the history of the fight against infectious disease. Unable to see the organism that causes rabies with the microscopes available, he convinced a skeptical medical community of the microorganism’s existence and also the possibility of vaccinating against it. He did this by doing work on rabbits and dogs. In 1885, after much heart searching, he tried out his rabies vaccine on a nine-year old boy, Joseph Meister, who had been bitten 14 times by a rabid dog. Thanks to Pasteur’s vaccine, the boy lived. (Hampson 1) The life of Joseph Meister and many others like him have been saved by animal experimentation. No matter

Animal testing is cruel, inhumane, and causes many deaths. To start, according to statisticsbrain.com “There are 76,430,000 cats in the U.S. and 19,500,000 are killed in research each year.” This means that 25% of cats are being killed each year due to animal testing. In addition, P.E.T.A. says “78,294 animals are subjected to severe pain much higher than the average animal pain tolerance.” This means that the people testing the animals aren’t taking into consideration the pain they are giving these animals. As can be seen, most of the cats are being killed because of animal testing and animals are being subjected to pain much more than they can handle.

Should animal testing be a research method in today's society? This has been a rising topic of today’s society, especially in the United States. Many would support this question as it has been used as a research method for scientific and commercial products to ensure safety for humans when they receive the final product. However, others would argue against animal testing due to its immorality of the researcher’s actions towards the animals as well inaccurate results received from the studies. While animal testing has benefited medical science in the past, but using animal testing today is seen to many as cruel and inhumane due to the rise of alternative testing strategies that result in fewer expenses and less damaging to animal kind.

First we should know what animal testing is, Animal tests are usually done on rats and mice. They test different beauty products and hair conditioners on the animals and that doesn’t seem to bad, but other scientists make the animals eat poisons and see who dies first. and some starve them are give them electric shocks. Most of the lab animals never even been outside, and most are born in captivity.

Animals, of course, aren’t the only ones who suffer from all the tests human beings do. After data has been collected and made into a suitable drug it is given and tested by humans. Due to the inaccuracy of the information gained from animal testing, more than 100,000 humans lose their lives after taking these drugs (How Many Animals Are Used). Other tests performed on animals are for potential carcinogens. A carcinogen is a substance capable of causing cancer in living tissue. In order to perform these tests, the victims subjected to the experiments are injected with a carcinogen every two years. Other (even more inhumane) experiments performed to test carcinogens involve killing pregnant animals and testing their fetuses. Every research lab that tests on animals has its own breeding facilities (Human Illness Don’t Exist In Animals).

The pain and suffering that experimental animals go through is not worth the possible benefit to humans. Significant quantities of people are oblivious to exactly how many countless animals are used as test subjects. Over 100 million animals are tested on each year (Peta). This is a massive number that causes numerous animals to be abused, neglected, and in even some cases killed (Peta). The Animal Welfare Act does not protect 95% of animals that are used in experiments. During the life span of the animals they are given drugs, tested on for toxicity levels, and other painful procedures. In toxicity testing, animals used in chronic testing receive the test substance daily seven days a week with no recovery

Did you know that 100 million animals are killed annually due to animal testing (“The Truth about Animals Used for Experimentation”)? Vivisection is the practice of doing operations on live animals for scientific research or medical advancements. It occurs all over the world including the U.S. There are anti vivisectionists, those who doesn't believe in animal testing, and pro vivisectionists, those who believe in animal testing (Coster 6). Animals should not used in medical testing because it’s inhumane, unnecessary, ineffective and costly.

Did you know that on average, every year, it is estimated that 26 million animals are tested and harmed just so you can have that great smelling cologne in your room; and it’s done for almost every product you would find in the soap, fragrance, lotion, and shampoo aisle at stores like Walmart and Target. Not all products are tested on animals but the majority are, which is insane because animals do nothing to us. In fact they were here before us so if that’s the case why don’t they test on us, humans. So, What is animal testing ? Animal testing is the use of a live animal in which the animal is forced into scientific experiment that often cause pain; This causes them significant suffering, and has long-lasting effect on them. There is no need to experiment on animals. A percentage of animal tests are not protected by the AWA, animals have no contribution on the cures for diseases like cancer, and the experiments used to test on the animals, torture the animals. Animal testing should be obliterated because it is cruel and inhuman.