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. The very first reason why animal testing should be banned is elementary: it is cruel and unnecessary. Approximately 17-22 million animals are used for testing each year in the United States. Substances are injected into the animal, chemicals are force-fed, irritants are rubbed into the eyes and …show more content…
This should be reason enough to end the madness of animal tests. Specific evidence points that animal testing should not be allowed; however the debate is also on moral grounds. Several people, about 60% of the population, agree that animal testing should be banned because it is just wrong. To be born into the world on a concrete floor and be made to lead a life with no freedom is worse than having no life. They have no chance to stop the pain or torment, simply because they are “just animals.” Animal activists and everyday people believe that humans are voices for the animals. Therefore, animal testing is considered ethically wrong and people should act as the advocate for the animals. 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
To conclude, I feel that animal testing is not right and I am against the current animal testing system, which is mandatory by law. I think the fact that the animals don’t have a choice and are being forced to be tested, which puts their life in danger, is wrong. I also believe that animal testing is the wrong thing to do when there are many alternatives that would cause no harm to animals (or humans). Jeremy Bentham once said, “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” – The answer is
DNA collection is a good thing not only can it help catch the person responsible for an illegal crime, but it can also clear up a suspect’s name. In the case of Maryland v. King on April 2009 Alonzo Jay King was charged for first and second degree assault for scarring a crowd of people with a shotgun, he was arrested and as a part of their booking procedure, they swabbed Alonzo Jay King for his DNA. Kings DNA sample later resulted to be a match of a DNA sample in the system “CODIS” of a rape victim by the name of Vonette W.’s Salisbury. Vonnette was raped on September 2003 but had not gotten justice for the crime against her since the only evidence was the DNA sample of the semen that was swabbed. No matches were found in the data base until Alonzo Jay King was arrested. By collecting DNA, it can help lead to an arrest of a suspect and to be able to close cases.
For a long time, the world considered animal testing as an essential part for finding medical cures and for creating cosmetics. Without observing it from different aspects, people are not aware that these testing are: cruel and inhumane and they waste a lot of government money and resources. Also, there are other alternative options that can replace all the experiments that are conducted on animals. Thus, animal testing is immoral and it should be banned.
Although many people agree with testing products on animals, they ask ‘Who else are we going to test our products on?’ Nobody! Don’t add harsh chemicals in the products and then the animals and humans are both healthier. Beyond millions of animals that die and are captured every year just from animal testing alone. Treating an animal cruelty is never okay, especially when they’re torturing the animals with harsh chemicals due to testing. If people would stand up and try to protect animals we’d be saving certain animals from becoming extinct and we’d also save a ton of money.
Mass college shootings are becoming more and more common each day, happening all over the country. This is an issue that requires a solution. Some people believe that allowing college students to have guns on campus will help solve the issue. Numerous states have already started passing bills that allow guns on campuses, and many more are trying. The Editorial Board at The Arizona Republic are fighting against these laws, as seen in their editorial “Our View: Time to allow guns on campus? No.”. The authors use various points in hopes of bringing awareness to this issue and to persuade the reader that allowing college students to have guns will not solve any issues, but will only bring upon more.
2.73 million experiments were done in the 12 months of 2002 and no pain relief is used for many animals after painful tests (Gale). Animal Testing has become a growing concern and it needs to stop. Humans can use human simulators, they can research on human volunteers, and can use computer modeling to help stop animal testing. As a result of animal testing, innocent animals are dying; therefor a ban is necessary.
It is waste of money when animal testing fails, and as statistics shown above says, it is risk taking to rely only on the results of testing on animals. Animals are animals and humans are humans. This means animals are very different from humans, which is why the drugs that satisfies animals are not suitable and safe to humans. It is also waste of time if the animal testing fails and causes more harm to humans so it is better not to use animal
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
Another element on why experimentation on animals is wrong is because, in multiple ways, it is pointless. According to an online article titled "Animal Testing”, the main stated reason that major companies even test their products on animals is because they are supposedly watching out for the safety of human beings. Most toxic products are tested on many types of different animals. Some toxic products that are used are: soaps, detergents, oven cleaners, and toilet cleaners. What is the problem with this picture? No amount of rigorous animal testing could possibly change the fact that many of these products are harmful if ingested or used in a way not intended by the manufacturer. In other words, there is no reason to force animals to swallow any toxic products, when no matter what, they would harm any person if they choose to digest it. Another point, many different types of drugs are actually very useful to
To begin with, navs.org tells us that humans differ from animals in various ways, animal models will never be able to accurately recapitulate what happens in the human condition. Due to humans differing animals in various ways, the results aren't always effective. Animals being tested on things that humans and animals differ from in basically just killing animals for no reason. Besides, articles.baltimoresun.com states that 90 percent of medications approved for human use after animal testing were later proved ineffective or harmful to humans in clinical trials. As a result, 90 percent of the tests done are ineffective and harmful to humans so there’s no point of doing animal tests. You could save thousands of animals by not doing tests on them. Since animal tests aren’t always effective, people should stop doing them and save the
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.
Ninety percent of the medicines we test on animals have not helped humans, they also do not reliably predict results for humans. According to Neurologist Aysha Akhtar 100 stroke drugs were effective on animals but failed on humans. Experiments animals undergo are often flawed and waste the lives of animals. Thomas Hartung states “it's very hard to create an animal model that even equates closely to what we're trying to achieve in the human.” Animal testing might also mislead researchers to the fact that animals have a different response to medicines that might be helpful to humans, for example Aspirin is dangerous to some animals. Animal testing is also more expensive than alternate methods we have found.
When you consider the benefits of animal testing, there are near to none - unless you call killing innocent creatures one. Animal testing has been in place since circa 500 BC, but we need to put an end to our cruel practices over animals promptly. Over 100 million animals are killed each year for the name of science - and that’s in the USA alone. Animal testing is cruel, inhuman and morally wrong. Not all dangerous side effects can be predicted by animal testing, therefore making it more or less pointless. There is more than a 90% chance that a drug was tested effective and safe in animals, but will be unsafe or ineffective for the consumer. Anyways, do we really need another soap, eyeliner, drug, or product so bad that it should come
In this dissertation the focus is on the reduced form credit risk model to calculate the prices of the default-free zero-coupon bonds. In order to use this model the specification of the models’ parameters should be done. More precisely, the hazard rate risk-neutral model, recovery rate and a default-free term structure should be chosen.