Animal Testing Should Be Banned

The term “animal testing” refers to procedures performed on animals for the benefit of humans. An estimated 25 million animals are tested on each year in the United States for scientific and commercial testing. It is used for biomedical research, medical usage, behavioral research, cosmetics, and the list goes on. Research on living animals has been practiced since at least 500 B.C. Many argue that animal testing is necessary for research, but with the medical technology we have today, this has been proven incorrect. The cost of animal testing is hundreds of thousands per year in the U.S. Animal testing is cruel and should not be allowed because it is abusive, expensive, and there are substitutes.

”More than 115 million animals worldwide are used in laboratory experiments each year” (About Animal Testing). Animal testing has been used since the BC years, and it is used to understand and compare how things might affect the human body. In 1937, a pharmaceutical company released a drug that was poisonous to humans unknowingly. It ended up poisoning many people, and resulted in several deaths. After this incident, experiments on animals became more important in the medical world (Hajar, Rachel). Animal testing should be illegal, because it is unfair, inhumane, and morally wrong.

All around the world, we use animal testing to develop new treatments, cures to crippling diseases, and to make sure products are safe for human use. In fact, approximately 26 million animals are tested on in the United States per year. This type of research has been practiced since before 500 B.C. Up until 1966, when the Animal Welfare Act was passed, this type of testing wasn’t regulated. Because of this, our testing methods have become cruel and remorseless. These days, animal testing has evolved into something horrifying and it should not be used nearly as much as it is.

In the year 2000 a total of over two million animals were used for testing in the United Kingdom. Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs. This cruel act of animal experimentation should be illegal. The use of animals for testing is not only inhumane, but most animals being used aren’t genetically the same as humans, it is also expensive to do, therefore wasting government dollars.

Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, is the use of animals in experiments to test product safety. I believe it is a big problem in our society. Every year at least 2.7 million animals are killed in laboratories in Australia alone and at least thirty-three animals die each second worldwide, due to cruel animal tests. Many companies feel it is okay to test on animals because they are deemed not as physiologically or emotionally complex as humans, but as animal rights supporter, Jeremy Bentham has said, “The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but rather, ‘Can they suffer?’ and most of the time the animals do suffer.

Less than 2% of human illnesses are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never affect animals. 92% of drugs passed by animal tests fail when first tried on humans because they’re useless, dangerous or both. Humans and animals are very similar to one another. Like humans they have similar systems in the body and at times it tends to react the same a human would. The animals that are used in research are mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, primates, dogs, cats, cows, fish, and birds. Almost all of these animals are used to try to make human life better and to progress in the world of medicine. The remaining animals are used as test dummies for all other products. Hundreds of thousands of animals are experimented on one another to figure out the

My thesis is that animal testing should be banned from our society altogether. Animal rights advocates argue that testing is a subject that has been argued countless amount of times in medical journals, and it has shown that it is a waste of animal lives. Subsequently, processing of a single drug requires more than 50 trials and use of as many as 12,000 animals. Moreover, regardless of the ethical issues that derive from animal testing, the infliction of physical/psychological distress on animals are resource and time deterring. Furthermore, animal experimentation provides a source of limited knowledge of how certain chemicals would behave in a human body. (Humane Society International).

Animal testing has been used for centuries; it has been traced back to 500 B.C.E. but did not become popular or common until the late 1800’s. At that time, UK government passed Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876 hoping it would reduce animal testing and pain placed upon the animals but sadly the bill did fail. When the United States passed the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) in 1966 animal’s wellbeing were started to be taken in a serious manner. Animal Welfare Act does state that “The term ‘animal’ means any live or dead dog, cat, monkey (nonhuman primate) mammal, hamster, rabbit, guinea pig, or such other warm-blooded animal” (Title 7- Agriculture 16) which excludes birds, some rats and mice, and cold-blooded animals. With that being said, the laws that are being placed to help “animals” are not helping all animals; those laws are not protecting turtles, fish, lizards, or any reptiles. The first step in fixing the issues of animal

"Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in U.S. labs every year". Animal testing is the scrutinization of pets for human benefits. Some believe that it has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments. These scientific experiments are detrimental and should be banned because they are immoral, cause unnecessary suffering, and they are fallacious and wasteful. Animals are tortured in these experiments and do not have a voice of their own to defend themselves. Considering that 95% of animals are not covered by the Animal Welfare Act. The AWA covered 820,812 animals experimented on in 2016, leaving about 25 million other animals not covered. The AWA is, "The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was the first federal

All types of animal testing should be banned by law. Treading away from the usual argument of animal cruelty, there are other equally notable reasons why a cat’s skull need not be smashed. The cost of animal testing per year is staggering, especially at a time where other sectors of our economy need more funding. There are other options that have proven to be more accurate and less expensive than traditional animal testing. Due to the biological differences in humans and animals used for testing, various results have had disastrous effects on humans when they did not for animals. Animals should not be used in experimental testing due to the extreme cost, other methods available, and flaws in experiment accuracy.

Animal rights is the idea that all animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that they are entitled to their most basic needs. The topic of animals rights has been discussed in occurrences of illegal hunting, domestic animal abuse, and testing on animals for any purposes. There are a vast variety of reasons for why to test on animals, whether they be cosmetic or scientific. The most argumentative topic regarding animal testing is medical testing. The community that complies with medical animal testing does so because testing on animals for medical reasons helps researchers find drugs and treatments, proves the safety of products, and it is regulated. Those who protest testing on animals argue that it is expensive,

Animals are the main experiment testers. They are seen as the most similar organism next to humans. With the same bodily functions as humans, animals are viewed as the perfect option for testing out new medicines, food, perfumes, makeup and even household products. Or are they? Animal testing is a very controversial topic. While it ensures the safety of product lines, the testing on animals is inhumane and cruel and there are alternative methods. In this paper, I will discuss the reason animals are the chosen factor in experiments, what is done to them during the experiments, and other ways to approach the testing of products while ensuring safety of the public.

Nearly every disease known to humans has been researched at some point in time using animals (Lee). As a matter of fact 100 million animals are used in chemical, food, cosmetic, and medical testing every year (Mendoza). Testing on animals can be cruel and inhumane. Many of the test done to animals have already been performed. Despite animal testing alternatives many researchers still use animals in research today. Animals should not be used in research.

You are one of the 26 million each year chosen to suffer from testing and in laboratories. You are one of the fifty chosen just for that certain test. You are and the other 26 million are not the lucky ones. That 26 million are being murder in laboratories every year (Should Animals… Testing? 1). Innocent animals are being brutally killed to serve humans through animal testing for cosmetic products when this brutality could be stopped by educating the consumers that there are many reliable alternatives which do not involve animal suffering.

According to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service performed by the United States Department of Agriculture, there are an estimated 26 million animals that are used for commercial and scientific testing annually in the United States (Annual). How do research facilities and laboratories obtain test subjects? They are mostly supplied by specialist dealers whom breed animals for the sole purpose of selling them as test subjects. Dealers also obtain animals through pounds, shelters, misleading advertisements, and through other means (Miller-Spiegel). Animal testing and research should cease because animals are subjected to cruel inhumane procedures by researchers, viable alternatives exist for animals testing, and results obtained through animal testing are mostly flawed and unreliable.