Animal Testing Should Be Stopped

For many years, the field of science has used animals in medical experiments worldwide, because of this innocent animals are being killed everyday. They are being tested with new drugs, new treatments, and by many makeup companies. Connecticut recently celebrated the passage of the “Beagle Freedom Law”, a law that requires laboratories to work with charities and rescue groups to find homes for research cats and dogs. Animals are being tested so humans do not have to be but animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings, although animals are the closest thing to humans. Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of innocent animal subjects. Over 100 million animals suffer a year from testing. Testing animals is a lot more expensive than alternative methods and it is wasting government research dollars. Animal testing is not only a bad idea, but it is also inhuman and it should not be tolerated. The FDA should stop allowing animal testing. An animal does not give out the same results on a test than a human would.

Approximately 26 million animals are used every year in the United States alone for research and commercial testing (“Background of the Issue” 1). For years, legislators have debated the pros and cons of animal testing, and laws were passed to attempt to fix the inhumane treatment of the cute, innocent testing subjects, the animals. Although the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was revised numerous times, “the species most commonly used in experiments (mice, rats, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians) comprise 99% of all animals in laboratories” and are the animals that are specifically exempted from protection under the act (“Experiments on Animals” 2). A simple fix to animal cruelty during testing is to use alternative methods since human and animal bodies already vary greatly. For years, animal testing was the best option because there was no alternative to testing on a living, whole-body system; however, in the age of technology, there is no reason for millions of animals to be killed due to the severity of the testing. Therefore, animal testing should be banned because alternative methods provide more accurate results since human bodies are very different than animal bodies; furthermore, animal advocacy organizations should promote cruelty-free products more so customers know what to purchase and use.

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.

How would you feel if millions of humans were tested on? Millions of animals are testing on yearly to see if your everyday products are safe for humans. Animal testing happens on mice, rats, dogs, cats, and many other animals. By testing on the animals it causes the animals pain, suffering, distress, harm, and even death. Testing produces on animals needs to be stopped because it causes harm to animals, it's a bad way to see if the produce actually works, and it's unnecessary.

Every year an estimated hundred million animals, in the United States, are subjected to undergo painful and invasive procedures. The majority of these experimental animals spend their entire lives in cages and eventually die from the insensitive tests that they are forced to endure. Animals that are tested in laboratories typically include dogs, cats, birds, ferrets, rats, rabbits, pigs, sheep, mice, monkeys, and many more. Ninety-nine percent of the animals that are experimented on are birds, mice, and rats. All of which are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act.

Irrelevant of one’s opinion as to the procedural methods utilized in animal testing, the simple fact of the matter is

Some of the world's most beloved and beautiful animals are exposed to brutal, intolerable conditions each day- merely for the benefit of human kind. In fact, over 100 million animals are poisoned, burned, immobilized, abused, and utterly stripped of their freedom as they undergo multiple commercial and scientific tests every year. These tests are physically and emotionally demanding on the most harmless of creatures, including dogs, cats, and rabbits. Animals are subjected to severe and intense situations where they have no way of escaping. The Animal Welfare Act saves certain animals from extreme abuse, however the amount of protection given to each animal is very minimal ("Animal Testing"). Because the Animal Welfare Act is unable to protect nearly 100 million animals in experimentation processes from inhumane treatment, commercial and scientific testing in laboratories should be banned when cheaper alternatives can be used as replacement.

In history, animal experimentation has played a significant important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. However, what many people tend to forget are the numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Each day across America innocent animals are used as test subjects for products that have little to no relevance importance. Animal testing has had many negative issues arise in society in a negative way. Debating over the animal rights movement has raised many questions and concerns for years. There is an ongoing controversy regarding if companies should stop testing their products on animals. Although animal research has been the cause of many medical breakthroughs, is it morally and ethically right to put animals in these kinds of situations? This is one of the underlying questions that must be solved before it is too late. When considering how truly reliable the results of animal test are, and the expense of testing will help bring new light to the problem. By simply passing a policy will not only address this issue, will help better products and medicine in the future.

Animal testing should end because its harms the animals, other things can be tested instead of animals, it costs more to test animals, and the results in animals can be different then the results in humans which can be really bad and it can harm humans. It also can cause birth defects to babies who are born and people think it will work on babies because it works on animal babies.

in US labs every year? The horrendous cause of this is to test newfangled products; such as,

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.

This approach and these laws are often referred to as the “3Rs of Alternatives.” (Stokes 1297). This concept involves refining animal use to lessen the pain and enhance animal well-being, reducing the total number of animals used, and replacing animals with other methods and approaches.

For many years there has been a debate whether animal testing should be banned or continued. Many scientists believe that a human’s life is superior to an animal’s life. Others, like me, believe that animal testing is good for medicine use and not cosmetics. In my prospective, as well as many others will agree, beauty is far less important than a living creature. For centuries now, animal testing has helped scientist develop new cures for diseases, health conditions and even the development of new technology. Animal testing has been beneficially for human beings. Believe it or not, you or someone you know might have used some medications that have been previously tested on animals.

The use of living, breathing animals in labs for research and product testing has been a topic of great controversy for years. Over 100 million animals are killed in labs for research and experimentation purposes each year in the U.S. alone, according to PETA’s article, “Experiments on Animals: Overview”. Unfortunately, no matter how a person feels about animals, it doesn’t change the fact that millions of their innocent lives are being taken advantage of every year. There are a few different viewpoints people have about animals, as some see them as loving pets and companions, while others see them as a logical method for conducting experiments to advance research. Unfortunately, no matter how a person feels about animals, it doesn’t change the fact that millions of their innocent lives are being taken advantage of every year. Animal experimentation for scientific or commercial use is a practice that needs to be eradicated for its unnecessary and unethical treatment of animal subjects.

To begin with, animal experimentation subjects innocent creatures to immense physical and psychological agony through the employment of abusive, inhumane procedures. Currently, an approximate 26 million animals in the United States alone undergo trials and experiments devised to ascertain the efficiency and overall safety of products developed for human use (“Animal Testing”). In a futile attempt to prevent the immoral treatment of animals in scientific laboratories, the government enacted the Animal Welfare Act several years previously, granting marginal protection to a handful of sentient species. However, the Animal Welfare Act excludes nearly 99 percent of animal species commonly used in scientific studies, thereby enabling scientists to experiment on creatures such as birds, mice, fish, and other cold-blooded species without interference from the law (“Animal Testing 101”). Consequently, in order to test commercial