Essay on Animal Testing Should Be Banned

For many years there has been an ongoing debate on whether or not animals should be given rights, even there own bill of rights. Some who are against the animal bill of rights argue that testing products on animals is important to the safety of humans. Others who want the new bill of rights claim that animals have feelings and that science is treating them inhumanely. Animal activists also add that animals are intelligent beings and are aware of how they are treated. Based on science proving animal activists correct on many of their points, this calls for a new bill of rights, in the United States, especially written for the protection and care of wild and domestic animals.

In today’s society animals still do not have all the rights that they deserve. We still perform medical experiments, hunt them for “fun” and food, and keep them locked up in cages for “entertainment” at zoos. If animals had rights humans would not be using them for selfish purposes for fun and entertainment. In the article by Jeremy Rifkin it is mentioned that “researchers are finding that many of our fellow creatures are more like us than we had ever imagined. They feel

Like humans, animals have rights too. Back in the old days, animals didn’t have any rights because some people thought they had no feelings of pain. Scientist used them in experiments because of this theory. It came to the point where animals, especially cats and dogs, who were homeless, unwanted, and even sheltered were sent to research institutes (Monamy 29). Monkeys also started getting attention from scientists. Many animals used for these experiments were being mistreated. Many humane groups were furious and started taking action. The Laboratory Animal Welfare Act was enacted in 1966 due to two

Picture yourself in a testing laboratory; needles, drugs, and knives pointed in your direction with you having no idea what’s going on around you, this is how animals everyday are treated, we have to stop this now! Millions of animals are killed in laboratories everyday with no chance to object to what the testers are about to do to them. Animals feel as much pain as humans do so why does it make it okay to test on them when they are so alike to humans? Every day people test makeup, shampoos, and medicines on animals, the strange thing is that animals have different skin, hair, and internal organs than humans have. Since the animals have different internal organs than humans only 5-25% of the testing results are agreeable between animals

Did you know that the shampoo you use was probably forced down the throat of a rabbit, cat, or maybe even a dog? Each year, millions of animals are used to test how safe and effective products, such as cosmetics, are. They are genetically modified, force-fed harmful chemicals, blinded, scalded, and maimed. How could one not object to this awful cruelty? Animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, unnecessary, inaccurate, and expensive.

I don’t believe that animals have rights. I would tend to agree with Carl Cohen when he states that “a right, properly understood, is a claim, or potential claim, that one party may exercise against another” (Pojman and Vaughn, 2014, pg. 816). In the legal realm I completely agree that Cohen is correct because animals can’t have rights. They also to our knowledge at the moment have the capacity for moral judgment. However, we as humans have the capacity for moral judgment and I think that we should not torture animals. It is difficult though because as Cohen points out biomedical research requires it to be tested and it is seen as more acceptable to test it on animals than humans. While I’m not entirely sure how we could solve this issue I don’t think millions of animals should be killed. I don’t think that we are morally obligated to be vegetarians and while animals don’t have rights they really shouldn’t be tortured. Animals that are being used for

Humans have rights and animals are pretty similar to humans so why shouldn’t animals have rights. Animal testing laws should be more strict so not a lot of animals end up dying. Animals are an important part of this world, and if we don’t take good care of them and keep on killing them, then what are researchers going to do. Just like if you take out an animal out of a food chain then the whole entire food chain gets affected, if we take out animals

Imagine you're a scientist. You get a rat. You stuff drugs in it. The rat slowly dies. Animal testing is a problem and should be banned because it harms animals, the results are unreliable, and other countries banned it.

As Americans, animals play a huge role in our everyday lives. We use animals in numerous of healthy and fun ways that keep our lives more enjoyable. What most people are unaware of though, is some of the horrible things that happen to animals outside of domestication. Animal rights has been a huge controversial issue when it comes to product testing, animal experimentation and simply people not giving animals the civility they deserve. Regarding my opinion, I think animals deserve the same amount of respect and rights as humans do. Animals should never be treated as less just because they are not able to speak up for themselves or not able to express pain as easily. Although product testing is the most contentious subject, animals can be used in circuses, animal fights and even the animals in aquariums and zoos are not treated fairly. These animals that are being used in these harmful ways do not deserve to be exploited and I feel most people agree with my claim.

One of the reasons why i believe that animals in a laboratory should be abolished of being conducted into research is a bad idea because the cost for the maintenance of the animal is to much. we all know that when you get an animal you need to take good care of it. Taking care of a animal means that you need to be dedicated the time to the animal so people spent tons of money to keep the animal is great shape. When someone spends money on a object is because that person cares about that object that he is speeding his money on. In a laboratory, scientist spent the same great amount of money then any other regular people would do just to keep the animal alive but in the other hand scientist buys animals for the animal in order to perform the chemical drug to the animal.

When considering the topic of animal testing, it draws attention from the government, general public, and of course, scientists. It has been an extremely contested moral issue for hundreds of years. In the 17th century Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, argued that animals were no more than automata and could not feel pain. This was rejected by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century who extended his utilitarian conception of rights to animals due to their capability to suffer. (Ethics, par.1) To put an end to this ethically wrong practice people need to be educated on the animals affected, the industries testing on animals, become aware of the alternatives, what people are doing to

Have you ever gotten a shot? Well, if you have before you know how unpleasant they are. Imagine that the shot/medicine wasn’t even made for you and it was made for animals, that wouldn’t be good for our body’s right? Well, that’s what some animals have to go through every day in animal testing. Think about how much harm the medicine is doing to the animals and their body. Would you want medicine that’s made for animals! I wouldn’t and so why should animals have to get medicine that is made for humans! That is why I think animal testing should be banned from the U.S. because millions of animals die a year because of animal testing and about 75% of the medicine that is tested on animals fails to work on humans

According to Biology Online, animal experimentation is defined as the use of animals in experiments and development projects usually to determine toxicity, dosing and efficacy of test drugs before proceeding to human clinical trials. Animal experimentation has been going on since ancient Greece when Aristotle and Hippocrates first made their model of the human body based on what they had observed through animal dissection. Then, Romans used animals to do more psychological tests on animals like pigs, monkeys and dogs. After that, the Renaissance period took up physiological studies. Since then, the 20th century had a huge increase in animal testing until 1980 when activists started standing up against the labs. Activists have not been

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).

Should animals be harmed to benefit mankind? This pressing question has been around for at least the past two centuries. During the early nineteenth century, animal experiments emerged as an important method of science and, in fact, marked the birth of experimental physiology and neuroscience as we currently know it. There were, however, guidelines that existed even back then which restricted the conditions of experimentation. These early rules protected the animals, in the sense that all procedures performed were done so with as little pain as possible and solely to investigate new truths. Adopting the animals' perspectives, they would probably not agree that these types of regulations were much