Every year in laboratories, hundreds, upon thousands, upon millions of animals are used, abused, plagued, diseased, and mercilessly killed for testing. On animals, people called, “vivisectors,” test loads of products, such as cosmetics, cleaning chemicals, medicines, warfare supplies, and pesticides on animals. The animals that are most commonly used are rabbits, guinea pigs,and mice, but they also tend to use other animals such as dogs, cats, cattle, swine, chickens, monkeys, reptiles, and many more. Each year inside British laboratories, nearly four million animals are experimented on. Every eight seconds, an animal dies. These animals are sentient beings, that can have emotions like fear, frustration, sadness, and loneliness. These …show more content…
Also, the outcome of the product that has been tested on animals, may differ quite a bit, once it is actually put into action with humans. “Obvious and subtle differences between humans and animals in terms of our physiology, anatomy, and metabolism make it difficult to apply data derived from animal studies to human conditions.” (Matthews, American Anti-Vivisection Association) 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals, fail in human clinical trials, because they are either too dangerous, or do not work. Simply because both of these hypotheses have been effectively proven true, there is no way to truly know whether or not we can trust any, much less all,of the medicines that have been tested on animals. We need to stop this, before it is too late.
I personally believe that if we must test a product on animals, we should not use it. Besides, this process is cruel, useless, incompetent, foolish, unwanted, harmful to animal species, and unneeded. Why should we rip an animal’s rights from them, only to benefit us, especially if we do not have to, even more especially if it is not guaranteed work? It is cruel, useless, and just plain stupid to harm one species to, “help,” another. Think about it. Pretend for a moment that you are a vivisector, in one of America’s testing labs. What would do if
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
First, animal testing has not been proven accurate for converting drugs to human use. According to an article
Although large companies and those for animal testing might think that animal testing is essential for products to be declared safe for human use, that is entirely untrue. Animals are not humans, so testing is not accurate. They are also genetically modified and subjected to abnormal stress. According to the FDA, only 5-25% of animal tests and human tests agree, so there is little relevance to humans. Furthermore, only 9% of products tested on animals make it to market. This questions how safe the products really are. What is effective in animals isn’t effective for humans. For example, drugs such as Vioxx, Phenactin, and E-Ferol were not effective in 92% of humans. That is
1. Do people know what vet colleges are doing to America’s favorite animals? Vet colleges are dissecting dogs, horses, and cows. Many might say this isn’t fair to the poor animals being used. These colleges need to find better ways of teaching their students. Dissecting animals America care for isn’t ethical and should be known. America should stop animal dissecting and learn new ways to teach college and other students.
Also animal testing normally will not yield the same results it would on humans. (Zurolo 3) Not only that, animal based tests take too long & are expensive on average. One such case where a drug was safe for animals but not for humans was a drug called Vioxx. In 2005 ,researchers found the drug had a heart protective effect in mice & other animals but the exact opposite in humans and caused heart problems. Once they found out that it caused heart problems in humans they ignored this very fact and instead pointed to the animal tests insisting it was “safe” and the evidence is there. (news -
When using cosmetics or common house cleaning products many do not realize that they are supporting animal cruelty. Animal testing is among the most disturbing experiments being done today. Vivisection is the practice of animal experimentation. It can include administering drugs, infecting animals with diseases, poisoning for toxicity testing, brain damaging, maiming, blinding, and other painful invasive procedures. Animal testing has protocols that cause severe suffering such as long-term social isolation, full-body restraint, electric shocks, withholding of food and water, or repeated breeding and separating infants from mothers. It is using millions of animals in ways that cause distress or death to test the safety of drugs and
By animal testing, the companies not only violate the animals' rights (which is breaking the law), but their testing methods are hazardous which endanger the animal's life. Finally, the companies should stop animal testing because each year we lose hundreds of thousands of animals and could make a difference by stopping this cruelty. Stop the animal testing, and save a life.
Imagine this; you’re a small, shivering rabbit cramped in the corner of your miniature metal cage, attempting to sleep but being kept awake by a persistent pain running throughout your entire body. You have been awake for over 53 hours, undergoing intense experimental research, you're sleep deprived and overwhelmed with pain, and all you can do is tremble with fear and pain hoping for it to come to an end. Fortunately for you it will end, because soon enough scientists are going to decapitate you and remove your brain to study the effects of their experiments. This is just one of the things that scientists do to living breathing animals undergoing research experiments daily, and one of the many reasons why you should wholeheartedly agree that animal testing should be banned worldwide. Animal testing should also be banned because it’s unethical, old fashioned. It’s simply bad science.
Do you know anyone who was gotten surgery lately? Whether it be a coronary bypass surgery, or getting their tonsils out, the first experiments of any surgeries were most likely performed on animals before they were performed on humans. Animal testing has been around for centuries, as is a very beneficial way to improve our lives. Many groundbreaking medical advances have been done first by using animals, so they can save thousands or even millions of human lives. Along with these experiments are guidelines that the FDA carefully regulates, so the environment, subjects, and scientists are efficient and progressive. It may came as a surprise to you, but in most studies, animals are actually better test subjects than humans. Each segment will
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.
Scientists putting animals through suffrage through medical research, but in any case, it’s not contested, but on a scale it often is. Some people know that there can be an up and downstream of whether animal experimentation is a part of good science and also result in medical breakthroughs for humans. Depending on whether the progress may have achieved by any means. Millions of animals each year in the United States are experimented on for testing to help find cures and medicine for sick people/patients. Toxicity of medicine is put into animals and take the risk of whether the tests are successful or not so that people can research further more. Research is led into saving lives, but what about the ones that are tested for hours on end and
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
Like cosmetic animal testing, medicinal tests often do not show reliable results; this is because people and animals do not get the same illnesses (Cruelty Free International, 2017). “These sicknesses that are found in humans but not animals are the many different types of cancers, HIV, schizophrenia, the different types of heart disease, and Parkinson’s disease” (Cruelty Free International, 2017). Researchers are wasting time, money, and animals lives subjecting these animals to cruel experiments that show inaccurate results (Cruelty Free International, 2017). Out of the 115 million animals in experiments around the United States about 95% of the drugs tested on the animals fail in human experiments. For these experiments to be performed, about $50 billion dollars are being invested in the research each year (Cruelty Free International, 2017). Scientists have researched drugs for the treatment of arthritis and Hepatitis B on animals before beginning a human trial. For example, Vioxx was the drug created to treat arthritis. At first it was found to be safe when tested on monkeys and other species, but overall it has caused about 320,000 heart attacks and
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).